Re: Weird: 30 sec delay during early boot

[Jeff Garzik]

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
> > 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.
>
>
> Search archives, there was something similar seen before.
> It was related to EDD, or some similar BIOS feature, IIRC.


Thank you for the hint!

I verified that changing CONFIG_EDD=y to '# CONFIG_EDD is not set' 
removed the 30-second pause at boot.

This 30-second pause only appeared recently on my x86-64 box (VIA-based 
Athlon64), so I'll bsearch changesets when I get a free moment (sometime 
this week).

I wonder, even, if it is related to the bootsetup.h fix from Matt that I 
forwarded recently.

	Jeff


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