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SubjectRe: Weird: 30 sec delay during early boot
Matt Domsch wrote:
> David, Jeff, would you mind trying the patch below on your systems
> which exhibit the long delays in the EDD real-mode code?
>
> This does a few things:
> 1) it uses an int13 fn15 "Get Disk Type" command prior to doing the
> fn02 "Read Sectors" command, to try to determine if there is a disk
> present or not before reading its signature.
>
> 2) A few registers are more fully zeroed out, in case the BIOS cared
> about things it shouldn't have.
>
> Crossing my fingers that the delays are gone...

Can you attach the patch, or switch mailers?

The patch is word-wrapped and otherwise munged :(

Example:
> +# Do int13 fn15 first, as BIOS should know if a disk is present or not.
> +# This avoids long (>30s) delays waiting for the READ_SECTORS to a non-pre=
> sent disk.
> + xor %eax, %eax
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