Slow Boot

[Bill Moran]

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.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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