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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:44:53 -0700
From: Shaun Jackman <sjackman@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)
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2005/8/12, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>:
> > 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.

Thanks for the hint. I tried edd=off but sadly the boot delay
persists. It looks as though edd was already disabled, as my .config
contains CONFIG_EDD=m and the edd module is not loaded. If it helps
troubleshooting I can post my .config here.

Cheers,
Shaun