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From: "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: long timeout on boot
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On 6/2/06, Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 15:30 -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:
> > Both on my own machine, and on systems in our test group's lab, we
> > notice these long (like 2min maybe?) delays near the end of boot. It
> > seems to be ATA/SATA related. It has just announced the one disk
> > it discovered, then shows the CPUs launched, and then it just sits
> > printing nothing for, like I said, maybe a minute or two. Finally it will
> > complete boot and all seems to be fine.
>
> Can you put a verbose dmesg up with debug.fdc.debugflags=255 set from
> the loader?
>
> I suspect you'll find it's floppy-related.  Try setting
> hint.fdc.0.disabled="1" from the loader and seeing if it goes away.

YUP, I hadnt looked before, but during the whole timeout the floppy
access light is on. There were some messages during boot from the
controller as well.

PFFT, floppies, who needs em, I configured it out and that eliminated
the problem :) So, do you need debug info on this, I could reenable
and capture if its helpful, otherwise I'm good at this point :)

Thanks for the tip Gavin.

Jack