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 early, just an > 'x'. If you know how to do that, you could give it a try. Start at > start_kernel in main hopefully you see the 'x'. If you do, keep moving > it until you find where it's delaying. Of course, this could be before > start_kernel, then you're really screwed, unless you're good at doing > the same in assembly (which I've done for MIPS, PPC and ARM, but never > for x86).
Since each reboot takes ten minutes, this would be a tedious process. Thanks for the suggestion though. > > I compiled a vanilla 2.6.12.4 kernel, enabled EARLY_PRINTK and > > rebooted with earlyprintk=vga. The kernel didn't display any extra > > information before the delay. > > 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] I suspect this second message is where grub decompresses the kernel. The last message grub displays is simply... boot Cheers, Shaun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
