On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 8:55 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> When I start my BBB with the ethernet connection I am generally up and at a
> login prompt within a few seconds.  But when I boot with the ethernet cable
> disconnected then the boot seems to hang right after the last message here:
>
> From here it will sit and do nothing but the heartbeat blink without
> indication of any real disk activity.   The delay seems to be around 45
> seconds to maybe a minute.   At that point the wireless adapter finally
> begins to negotiate and connect.  Only when that has completed do I then get
> a login prompt at the serial console.
>
> I would really like to determine how I can speed this up.  I don't want my
> robot to sit and blink at me for 50 seconds just burning time at startup.
> Below is the dmesg output.   You can see the very long delay after about the
> 5 second mark.

It sounds like you have eth0 enabled in /etc/network/interfaces

So it's waiting for a valid ip address and will wait a good 60 seconds.

> [    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
> [    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
> [    0.000000] Linux version 3.8.13-bone59 (root@imx6q-wandboard-2gb-0) (gcc
> version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-14) ) #1 SMP Fri Jul 4 22:52:56 UTC 2014

btw, upgrade to bone60, we fixed a major bug on the phy, where
sometimes it can't be found.

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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