From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264772AbUEKRpI (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 13:45:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264805AbUEKRpI (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 13:45:08 -0400 Received: from 209-166-240-202.cust.walrus.com ([209.166.240.202]:52179 "EHLO ti41.telemetry-investments.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264772AbUEKRoz (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 13:44:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 13:44:54 -0400 From: "Bill Rugolsky Jr." To: Len Brown Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Long boot delay with 2.6 on Tyan S2464 Dual Athlon Message-ID: <20040511174454.GD27033@ti64.telemetry-investments.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Bill Rugolsky Jr." , Len Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1084294867.12359.109.camel@dhcppc4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1084294867.12359.109.camel@dhcppc4> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:01:07PM -0400, Len Brown wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 10:35, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > > When booting 2.6 on a Tyan S2464 dual Athlon, the kernel pauses > > for about two minutes before the first boot message appears. > > This does not occur with 2.4 kernels. > > $0.05 says it is related to SCSI > BTW. you got the latest BIOS on this box? Yes, 2.14 from the Tyan site, released a a few weeks ago. > > Vendor: 3ware Model: Logical Disk 3 Rev: 1.2 > > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 > > SCSI device sdd: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB) > > SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write through > > sdd: > > Attached scsi disk sdd at scsi2, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 > > if you slap an IDE drive on this box and disable the SCSI does the delay > go away? The box is all IDE; the above messages are from the 3ware controller, which emulates a SCSI device. There is nothing hanging on the on-board Adaptec SCSI controller. The BIOS doesn't provide a setting to disable it, though I think there is a jumper on the motherboard. Unfortunately, I have to slap this box into production later today, so I can't experiment much more. But we have a half-dozen of these motherboards in the office running Solaris 8 or FC1, and those are slated for eventual upgrade to a 2.6 kernel, so I'll try to take one out of production for a bit of experimentation. Thanks. Bill Rugolsky