Re: Weird: 30 sec delay during early boot

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik_at_pobox.com)
Date: 07/04/04

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To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>

    Andi Kleen wrote:
    > Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:
    >
    >
    >>This appeared in -bk-latest in the past day or two.
    >>
    >>BK-current on x86-64 (config/dmesg/lspci attached) will pause for 30
    >>wall-clock seconds immediately after being loaded by the bootloader,
    >>then will proceed to boot successfully and function correctly. This
    >>is reproducible on every boot.
    >>
    >>So, 30 seconds with no printk output, then boots normally.
    >
    >
    > Boot with earlyprintk=serial,ttySx,baud or earlyprintk=vga
    > That should enable printk from the beginning and may give
    > some clues.

    would early printk show something that dmesg(8) would not?

            Jeff

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