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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:33:27 -0300
From: Sergio Luis <sergio@larces.uece.br>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.25 slow boot/reboot
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Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Sergio Luis <sergio@larces.uece.br> wrote:
>>  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.
> 
> Do you use LILO or GRUB for booting ? 2.6.25 works OK on the systems I
> tested, but LILO really needs a lot of time to load the 2.6.25 kernel.
> GRUB loads the 2.6.25 kernel at normal speed.

I use LILO, but read your answer and tested GRUB, and you are right, GRUB starts the boot process much faster than LILO, but I was talking about the time it takes once the kernel is booting already. Isn't that independent from the bootloader used?

I experience the same problems when I use GRUB.
For instance, I see
"Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled"
and the system seems to freeze for a while. It takes about 90 seconds for the next message (floppy0: no floppy controllers found) to show up.

-sergio