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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
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Subject: Re: Weird:  30 sec delay during early boot
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Boot with earlyprintk=serial,ttySx,baud or earlyprintk=vga
> That should enable printk from the beginning and may give
> some clues.

would early printk show something that dmesg(8) would not?

	Jeff