Boot

modsRule · 02-19-2009, 02:40 PM

I installed Debian Lenny on an old IBM Thinkpad laptop.

The install works fine, apart from the boot takes several minutes. This occurs around 1/2way through the boot process and is caused to udevadm.

udevadm is causing the whole machine to wait while nothing happens untill it timesout.

Is there anyway to reduce the default timeout time to something sensible?

thanks.
modsRule

nx5000 · 02-19-2009, 08:18 PM

Try to see where the problem appears
Open a shell and monitor syslog
tail -f /var/log/syslog
In another shell:
udevadm control --log_priority=debug
udevadm control --reload_rules
udevadm trigger

And look at syslog. The timeout of the whole is 3 min at boot and should/can not be changed

modsRule · 02-21-2009, 02:16 PM

I have tried that. Nothing stops being written the log for more than 15 seconds, wheras on boot 1 item stops it for several minutes.

Is there a boot-log?

nx5000 · 02-23-2009, 03:02 AM

Did you check the thread a few lines below about slow booting on a imac?
This enables more debugging.
Otherwise, simply visually, make sure that your grub line does not contain "quiet" and try to see where it stops?

I'm also having some trouble with some of my initrd :/

modsRule · 02-24-2009, 01:35 PM

I removed the quiet flag from the grub boot-loader. (found in /etc/grub/menu.lst because its debian)
No more information relating the sudden holdup occurred.

The last bit before the pause (very.very long pause

) is 'cs: IOPort probe xxxx-xxxx' (where xxxx are numbers)
Hitting Ctrl-C to end whatever is causing the problem. works and the boot then continues with: 'Setting parameters of Disk' and 'Settings System Clock'

Any more ideas?