[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Confirm , same happens here, > I shut down my box, and when plugged in, I waited like 5 min and nothing > happened. > Once I connected my null serial onto my monitor, it started to boot up. > Hopefully we get a hint of what is going on. > >> Hello, >> >> We have a Soekris net5501 using a Slackware distribution on it. However, >> if there is no serial cable attached, we encounter a boot delay of about >> 10 minutes. Is there a BIOS setting or something to circumvent this >> behaviour?
Sounds like the bootloader (is Slackware still using lilo?) is waiting for a console to be ready before booting. Can you post your lilo.conf (or grub.conf if they switched to grub)? Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
