Re: Soekris 5501 Console Delay (WAS: Re: Tuning a soekris 4501)

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 05:27:00PM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> >The only issue I see is approx. 2 minute delay in the bootloader before
> >it loads the kernel.  I know that Jared has seen this, too.
> >
> 
> Two Minutes?! Yikes!  What's it doing?  Some kind of hardware probe that 
> times out?
> 
> Are you doing installboot -o console=com0,speed=0?


I have the same issue with my Soekris 4501.  I'm not sure when this started
(I don't reboot this thing often), but it certainly wasn't the case when I
initially set it up.

        Geert