Re: 2.6.25 slow boot/reboot

[Allan Duncan <amd2345@fastmail.com.au>]

Sergio Luis wrote:
> Hello,
> This weekend I got some time and decided to try out 2.6.25, but its booting process was _really_ slow in my laptop[1]. With 'old' 2.6.24.5 my machine would take about 48 secs until it gave me the login prompt. And it would take about 22 seconds to reboot.
> 
> With 2.6.25 I got from Linus git tree, my system takes about 4 min and 40 secs to boot. Sometimes looks like the system just freezes for a while, and then it continues the boot process. Rebooting also seems problematic here. After almost 3 minutes I had asked the system to reboot, it was still there. I typed reboot again and it then rebooted right away, weirdly.

I wonder if this relates to my 2.6.25 booting problem:
I use lilo, v22.5.9, and with 2.6.25 the boot process stalls part way through,
then retries, etc for up to six attempts before succeeding.  When I can get
the latest lilo to compile I'll try that, but I'm not holding my breath.

I get a display like "LILO............." and then the hang.  It is about 14 dots,
normally about twice that many before I get a new line and a message about
BIOS check succeeding.