Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-16 Thread Etienne Lorrain
> > Do you see grub saying "uncompressing kernel..." or whatever that says? > > Grub says... > > root (hd2,2) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12.4 root=/dev/md0 ro nodma > [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1302ff] May I suggest to try a boot

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-16 Thread Etienne Lorrain
Do you see grub saying uncompressing kernel... or whatever that says? Grub says... root (hd2,2) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12.4 root=/dev/md0 ro nodma [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1302ff] May I suggest to try a boot with Gujin

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-15 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/12, Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is the keyboard ever set up then? This is all happening before > console_init (since that's when the prints start) and the early printk > won't show anything before it parses the options. For other > architectures, I use to write out to the serial

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-15 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/12, Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is the keyboard ever set up then? This is all happening before console_init (since that's when the prints start) and the early printk won't show anything before it parses the options. For other architectures, I use to write out to the serial really

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 18:39 -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > 2005/8/12, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >I tried earlyprintk=vga, but it didn't provide any extra information. > > >Although, CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK is disabled in my .config. Does it need > > >to be set to CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y for

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/12, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >I tried earlyprintk=vga, but it didn't provide any extra information. > >Although, CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK is disabled in my .config. Does it need > >to be set to CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y for earlyprintk=vga to work? > > I think yes, otherwise there

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>I tried earlyprintk=vga, but it didn't provide any extra information. >Although, CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK is disabled in my .config. Does it need >to be set to CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y for earlyprintk=vga to work? I think yes, otherwise there would not be a .config entry at all. >I haven't tried

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/12, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >Thanks for the hint. I tried edd=off but sadly the boot delay > >persists. It looks as though edd was already disabled, as my .config > >contains CONFIG_EDD=m and the edd module is not loaded. If it helps > >troubleshooting I can post my .config

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>Thanks for the hint. I tried edd=off but sadly the boot delay >persists. It looks as though edd was already disabled, as my .config >contains CONFIG_EDD=m and the edd module is not loaded. If it helps >troubleshooting I can post my .config here. Maybe you can get something using EARLY_PRINTK

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/12, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > At this point there is a nine minute, fifteen second delay. As soon as > > the kernel starts printing messages it goes by quite fast, so I can't > > be certain what it's printing, but the first message according to > > dmesg is... > > Linux version

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Shaun Jackman wrote: 2005/8/11, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Shaun Jackman wrote: I added a PCI SATA controller to my computer. Immediately after grub loads the kernel there is a consistent ten minute delay before the kernel displays its first message. I tested Linux 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 both

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/11, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Shaun Jackman wrote: > > I added a PCI SATA controller to my computer. Immediately after grub > > loads the kernel there is a consistent ten minute delay before the > > kernel displays its first message. I tested Linux 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 > > both from

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/11, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Shaun Jackman wrote: I added a PCI SATA controller to my computer. Immediately after grub loads the kernel there is a consistent ten minute delay before the kernel displays its first message. I tested Linux 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 both from Debian, and

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Shaun Jackman wrote: 2005/8/11, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Shaun Jackman wrote: I added a PCI SATA controller to my computer. Immediately after grub loads the kernel there is a consistent ten minute delay before the kernel displays its first message. I tested Linux 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 both

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/12, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At this point there is a nine minute, fifteen second delay. As soon as the kernel starts printing messages it goes by quite fast, so I can't be certain what it's printing, but the first message according to dmesg is... Linux version 2.6.11-1-k7

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Thanks for the hint. I tried edd=off but sadly the boot delay persists. It looks as though edd was already disabled, as my .config contains CONFIG_EDD=m and the edd module is not loaded. If it helps troubleshooting I can post my .config here. Maybe you can get something using EARLY_PRINTK and/or

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/12, Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for the hint. I tried edd=off but sadly the boot delay persists. It looks as though edd was already disabled, as my .config contains CONFIG_EDD=m and the edd module is not loaded. If it helps troubleshooting I can post my .config here.

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
I tried earlyprintk=vga, but it didn't provide any extra information. Although, CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK is disabled in my .config. Does it need to be set to CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y for earlyprintk=vga to work? I think yes, otherwise there would not be a .config entry at all. I haven't tried Sysrq+T

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/12, Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I tried earlyprintk=vga, but it didn't provide any extra information. Although, CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK is disabled in my .config. Does it need to be set to CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y for earlyprintk=vga to work? I think yes, otherwise there would not be a

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 18:39 -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: 2005/8/12, Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I tried earlyprintk=vga, but it didn't provide any extra information. Although, CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK is disabled in my .config. Does it need to be set to CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y for

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-11 Thread Tejun Heo
Shaun Jackman wrote: I added a PCI SATA controller to my computer. Immediately after grub loads the kernel there is a consistent ten minute delay before the kernel displays its first message. I tested Linux 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 both from Debian, and 2.6.11 from Knoppix, all of which experience the

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-11 Thread Tejun Heo
Shaun Jackman wrote: I added a PCI SATA controller to my computer. Immediately after grub loads the kernel there is a consistent ten minute delay before the kernel displays its first message. I tested Linux 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 both from Debian, and 2.6.11 from Knoppix, all of which experience the

Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-09 Thread Shaun Jackman
I added a PCI SATA controller to my computer. Immediately after grub loads the kernel there is a consistent ten minute delay before the kernel displays its first message. I tested Linux 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 both from Debian, and 2.6.11 from Knoppix, all of which experience the same delay. The SATA

Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-09 Thread Shaun Jackman
I added a PCI SATA controller to my computer. Immediately after grub loads the kernel there is a consistent ten minute delay before the kernel displays its first message. I tested Linux 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 both from Debian, and 2.6.11 from Knoppix, all of which experience the same delay. The SATA