(I have re-added powersave-devel to cc: to keep the conversation on-list.
 It would be nice to keep it that way)

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 07:48:55AM +0200, Paolo Subiaco wrote:
> Stefan Seyfried ha scritto:
> > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 04:32:21PM +0200, Paolo Subiaco wrote:
> >> Hi all.
> >> I've seen that, with both notebook and desktop PC, using a kernel
> >> version greater than 2.6.17 (or at least with 2.6.20, 2.6.21 and
> >> 2.6.22), while booting PC the grub loading and kernel loading is very
> >> very very slow.
> >> Instead, using 2.6.17 kernel, grub and kernel loading is OK.
> >> I use a ATA disk in both PC/NB.
> > 
> > Ok, but why do you think this is related to powersave?
> 
> Hi Stefan.
> I don't know if powersave, before exiting, put disks in a state that
> cause that problem, or if only linux kernel is responsible for this.
> Best regards. Paolo

I don't think that powersave can do this. At least not more than,
let's say, Gimp, Acrobat Reader or MPlayer ;-)

I assume you are using reiserfs for the partition where /boot is
on, i have posted a lengthy explanation of this issue on linux-kernel
some time ago (it was in conjunction with suspend to disk, but it
might also happen on regular boot)
-- 
Stefan Seyfried
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