Re: 45 minute boot time with 2.6.4/2.6.6-mm5 kernel on 1.7GHz laptop

[Mikael Pettersson]

Matthew Denner writes:
 > On Saturday I installed SuSE 9.1 Personal on my laptop and I'm beginning 
 > to wonder whether this was a bad idea.  It takes my laptop (a Pentium-M 
 > Centrino 1.7Ghz with 1GB DDR RAM and 40GB HDD) 45 minutes to boot (from 
 > selecting "linux" in GRUB to having the KDE interface up and running). 
 > It spends about 20-25 minutes in the boot procedure before it even gets 
 > to starting X.  Yesterday I managed to tidy my front room, put some 

Sounds a lot like a BIOS MTRR problem we've seen before, where
the BIOS fails to make the top-most part of physical RAM cacheable.

Send the contents of /proc/mtrr and the head of dmesg (the part
that shows the physical memory map) to LKML.
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