Slow Boot

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

What does pciconf -vl show on the affected machine(s)?

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Bill Moran wrote:

> Mike Atamas wrote:
> > When my system boots it seems to stall when it gets here:
> >
> > xa807,0xa400-0xa403,0xa000-0xa007 mem 0xe1000000-0xe10001ff irq 11 at device 11.
> > 0 on pci1
> > ata2: at 0xe1000000 on atapci0
> > ata3: at 0xe1000000 on atapci0
> >
> > It stalls for about 20-30 seconds and then continues booting. I can not figure out
> > what the problem is or how to solve it. Has anyone had similar issues.
>
> I've seen this on various hardware.  I actually have a 200mhz machine sitting here
> that has always done this.  I've never seen it cause any problems, and I've never
> had any suggestions on how to stop it either.
>
> My best guess is that the chipset responds slowly to probes, thus it takes a while
> to get the list of devices from it.  However, I've never looked into it any more
> than that.