Several issues on Dell 1950/2950 servers (6-STABLE and 7-CURRENT)

[Alex Salazar]

On 9/9/06, Matthew Jacob <lydianconcepts at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Insofar as the Error 22- that's normal to see those for verbose
> > > booting. They should be more informative as to why those are
> > > occurring.
> > >
> >
> > You're right. Those messages are evident only while verbose booting,
> > so, I'm not really concerned about them but the huge delay on booting
> > (up to 18 min) they represent on 6-STABLE.
> >
>
> Hmm. I'll have to dig back thru the mail here but I don't get this.
>

On 6-STABLE, those "Error 22" messages on boot, show up too slowly,
one character at a time, at about one line every 30 seconds, which delays
the boot process on almost 20 (twenty) minutes. After that huge delay, the
disc information is shown and the file system is fsck'ed, as usually. However,
disabling APIC, eliminates this delay.

On 7-CURRENT, there is not such delay, even though APIC was enabled.

Regards.

--
Alex