From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750783AbVHLIEF (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Aug 2005 04:04:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750957AbVHLIEF (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Aug 2005 04:04:05 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:53418 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750783AbVHLIEE (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Aug 2005 04:04:04 -0400 Message-ID: <42FC57EC.2060204@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 04:03:56 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shaun Jackman CC: Tejun Heo , lkml Subject: Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112) References: <7f45d939050809163136a234a@mail.gmail.com> <42FC0DD4.9060905@gmail.com> <7f45d93905081201001a51d51b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7f45d93905081201001a51d51b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Shaun Jackman wrote: > 2005/8/11, Tejun Heo : > >>Shaun Jackman wrote: >> >>>I added a PCI SATA controller to my computer. Immediately after grub >>>loads the kernel there is a consistent ten minute delay before the >>>kernel displays its first message. I tested Linux 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 >>>both from Debian, and 2.6.11 from Knoppix, all of which experience the >>>same delay. >> >> * What do you mean by the `first' message? ie. What's the first line >>you read? >> * Is it really ten minutes? > > > Hello, Tejun. Thanks for the reply. > > The message displayed by the bootloader, grub, is... > root (hd2,2) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1-k7 root=/dev/md0 ro nodma > [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1600, size=0x122a667] > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.11-1-1-k7 > [Linux-initrd @ 0x1fb29000, 0x4c6000 bytes] > boot > > At this point there is a nine minute, fifteen second delay. As soon as > the kernel starts printing messages it goes by quite fast, so I can't > be certain what it's printing, but the first message according to > dmesg is... > Linux version 2.6.11-1-k7 (dannf@firetheft) (gcc version 3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-6 > )) #1 Mon Jun 20 21:26:23 MDT 2005 > BIOS-provided physical RAM map: It's doing something BIOS-related at that point. Try booting with 'edd=off' or disabling CONFIG_EDD. Jeff