On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:20 +0000, Mikko Rantalainen wrote: > I, too, have DG45ID motherboard and disabling USB Legacy support in the > BIOS is not a great choice because then you cannot use keyboard in the > boot loader. > True, but I find the tradeoff worth it. I haven't yet had a need to interrupt GRUB. If it was essential I would just adjust the BIOS to let me do that.
> Whatever causes about 8 second timeout before kernel message "pci > 0000:00:1a.7: EHCI: BIOS handoff failed (BIOS bug?) 01010001" needs to > be fixed (note that that timeout is executed twice in row because of the > two EHCI controllers). Everything seems to work okay regardless of this > error so perhaps the whole timeout could be skipped or reduced to nearly > zero on DG45ID (and probably on all G45/P45 based intel motherboards?). > The delay is purposely coded in the kernel to draw your attention to the "BIOS bug". You could fairly easily strip that out if you're interested in making yourself a custom kernel. Or, if you petition the right people that delay could be removed (for every motherboard or just for boards/chipsets known to work okay even with the "bug"). -- slow boot on intel DG45ID https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/275351 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
