kernel-2.6.14-1.1637, 1653: long delay after "Uncompressing..." phase

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 03:24:39PM +0200, Ville Herva wrote:
 > Since kernel-2.6.14-1.1637, there has been a long delay during boot after
 > the "Uncompressing..." line. It takes about a minute or so, and judging
 > from the sound of the fan, it appears to take 100% CPU. Observed on a Compaq
 > AP250 PIII 866MHz. Earlier kernels did not have this glitch.

a handy trick for finding out where delays occur is to boot
with the options.. 'time initcall_debug'

		Dave