Re: Weird: 30 sec delay during early boot

Pavel Machek
2004-07-04T14:19:12Z

Hi!

> This appeared in -bk-latest in the past day or two.
>
> BK-current on x86-64 (config/dmesg/lspci attached) will pause for 30
> wall-clock seconds immediately after being loaded by the bootloader,
> then will proceed to boot successfully and function correctly. This
> is reproducible on every boot.
>
> So, 30 seconds with no printk output, then boots normally.
>

Search archives, there was something similar seen before.
It was related to EDD, or some similar BIOS feature, IIRC.

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