Messages in this thread | | | From | David Balazic <> | Subject | RE: Weird: 30 sec delay during early boot | Date | Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:52:14 +0200 |
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> ---------- > From: Matt Domsch[SMTP:Matt_Domsch@dell.com] > Sent: 29. julij 2004 18:02 > To: David Balazic > Cc: Dave Jones; Andries Brouwer; Jeff Garzik; Pavel Machek; Linux > Kernel; Andi Kleen; Andrew Morton > Subject: Re: Weird: 30 sec delay during early boot > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 03:05:10PM +0200, David Balazic wrote: > > > David, you had said before that by downgrading your BIOS you no longer > > > saw the delay. Is this not still true? > > > > > Still true, downgrading removes the delay. > > OK, then I'm inclined to believe it's a BIOS bug really... > > > > You also mentioned that Grub made different calls. I'll check that > > > out too. > > > > > Can you make a patch, that only accesses hd0 and hd1 ? > > Reduce the value of > #define EDD_MBR_SIG_MAX 16 > > in include/linux/edd.h to whatever value you like, e.g. 2. > I set this to "1" and got the same delay ... :-(
> > Or one which prints what is it doing, on each step ? > > ( I tried this one myself, but it did not work :blush: , IA32 assembler > > is not my strong side ) > > That's more PITA - it's in real mode, before anything's ever been > printed. I'd prefer not to have to figure that out if I can avoid it. > > Thanks, > Matt > > -- > Matt Domsch > Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer > Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux > Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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