Long Pause at Boot

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 03:47:23AM -0700, 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?

To begin with, edit your grub command line, so that it doesn't
boot up with 'quiet'.  That should get you a bunch of
text scrolling by during boot.  That should pinpoint where
it's hanging at least.

		Dave

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