The Saturday 2004-05-15 at 20:28 +0100, Vince Littler wrote:
It must be waiting for something. Did you look at the console 10 at that moment?
[Sorry Carlos, sent this to you 1st time and not to the list. More sleep would be good!]
No problem - Then I'll repost my direct answer here as well :-)
Yes, I agree, it seems to be waiting for something. But what?
2 minutes = 4 * 30 seconds in old money. Probing master and secondary on 2 IDE channels? [I'm totally SCSI.] Or something else.
What is so perplexing is that there are no consoles running at that point. I have the GRUB load messages on screen. If I boot failsafe, these remain for the 2 minutes, but they blank if I boot the Linux option of GRUB. I only get console 1 appearing after the 2 minutes, at which point the boot messages look roughly similar to those with 9.0 and the stock kernel.
I have no idea... I wonder if there is a "verbose" option. Report this to feedback - perhaps with a hwinfo log and the boot.msg file. Only a kernel developer can have a good educated guess at what is happening.
Fortunately, I still have my 9.0 installation running on the machine, but I will try another boot of 9.1, and see if console 10 gives any more clues. There are some minor complaints in the boot log about DSDT and interrupt routing and Linux doing an impression of Marvin the Paranoid Android along the lines of "if your BIOS won't do PCI, then I suppose I'll have to", but it is pretty much the same in 9.0. Nothing stands out, otherwise.
Try acpi and/or apic options, enabling and disabling. Who knows :-?
I could live with it, I suppose, but I think it is worth getting to the bottom of this, because any newbie and many oldies would give up looking at a blank screen after about 20s and say "it's broken". FWIW, the behaviour is the same for a DVD boot. [Not tried the CD.] It is only many years of OS/2 installs which has taught me to sit still and give it a chance, particularly at install time. Good thing is now that even with 4 machines, and a release every 6 months, I am getting out of practice at installing!
The same as I live with my machine been unable to power off at the end of the "halt" sequence. I can live with it, but it is a nuisance. At least, I can use the power button, but you can do nothing but wait. -- Saludos Carlos Robinson