Long Pause at Boot

[Tony Nelson]

At 3:47 AM -0700 7/11/06, Khoa Ton wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm noticing a long pause, about 20 seconds, on boot up right
>after the line:
>	"Uncompressing Linux, Ok booting kernel"
>
>This is happening with my current kernel 2.6.17-1.2145_FC5,
>but NOT on the previous kernel 2.6.17-1.2139_FC5, and
>WAS pausing on the kernel before that, 2.6.17-1.2133_FC5.
>
>I've tried dmesg to see if I can pin point the pause,
>but that was not help.
>
>Can anyone point me to debugging this annoying, but
>harmless, pause?

Probably you are booting with the "quiet" kernel option.  2139 has a bug
that causes it not to respect that option, so it keeps spewing to the
console.  You could try removing the "quiet" option from the kernel command
line in grub.

If, instead, booting takes 20 seconds longer than before, well, removing
the "quiet" option may still help.
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