From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760207AbYD0Nsq (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:48:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753811AbYD0Nsh (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:48:37 -0400 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:39533 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753920AbYD0Nsg (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:48:36 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 37T1P3CrTM7IIUjlysRvgsyEQm2Rj3FLOA2KlF3Q+shg 1209304115 Message-ID: <48148432.7010103@fastmail.com.au> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:48:34 +1000 From: Allan Duncan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.25 slow boot/reboot References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.