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

["Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp%spiritual-machines.org@localhost>]

Okay -- I'll file a PR this morning when I get to the office.

I'll include Bill's patch.

~BAS

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Geert Hendrickx wrote:

> 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

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