I'm experiencing long delays at bootloader time on one multiboot system (BIOS; 2 core), but only for some installations. No delays with these: openSUSE 13.1 3.12.36 Kubuntu 14.10 3.16.0 Mageia 4 3.18.2 Fedora 21 3.18.7 Fedora 22 3.19.rc4 Fedora 22 3.19.rc7 Rawhide 3.19.rc7 Cauldron 3.19.0 Fedora 22 4.0.0.rc1 For each not producing delay, 80x25 screen shows very briefly, before init proceeds normally, output in the following form: root (hd#,##) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz...video=1024x768@60 3 [Linux-Bz-Image, setup=0x####, size=0x######] initrd /boot/initrd For those producing delay, the last line above does not appear until after the delay expires. The following consistently produce delays: openSUSE 13.2 3.16.6 (168 seconds) openSUSE 13.2 3.16.7 (169 seconds) openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.19.0 (174 seconds) Rawhide 4.0.0.rc1 (104 seconds) >From what I can tell from output from smart and hdparm, the HD is not the source of delay: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Boot/hdparmdata-big41-test.txt All installations are normally booted using the same Grub on /dev/sda3, using identical syntax, so their cmdlines all look about the same except for the root= parameter. Instead chainloading to the installed bootloader on each / filesystem has no impact on delays that I have as yet noticed. This system has been normally functional more than 30 months with same HD. The delays started only recently, though whether as much as a week or a month since delays started I cannot recall. Output from journalctl -k -b from each installation above (except Kubuntu) can be found here: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Boot/ Any ideas how to locate the fault? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
