On Mar 3, Wenchi Liao wrote
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> [...]
> device, and disabling the power manager. It seems to help: it sticks on
> the wd0 line for about a minute before going on. Is this normal?

It may be trying to detect another HD, or some other ISA peripheral.
Timeouts needs to be several seconds here for some devices.
Now that you have it setup, you can compile a custom kernel with only
the devices you need. This should speed things up a bit.

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