[coreboot] slow load times

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 17:11:03 CET 2009


On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 3:39 PM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The other interesting problem I have is that when I cold boot into SeaBIOS,
>> the drives aren't detected.  If I restart the machine after this happens, it
>> won't boot fully into Linux until I boot the factory BIOS.  This doesn't
>> happen if I stop the boot process by holding reset until the drives spin up
>> on cold boot.
>
> Isn't this the classic problem where coreboot/seabios are ready before
> the drives are? If so it's a 10 year old problem, which we have fixed
> several times in other places. I note kevin now has a fix in :-)

Yes.  The interesting part was that Linux won't boot when reset after
a failure.  I was wondering what was getting misconfigured.  It's
strange for grub to be able to load the kernel, but then not have the
kernel be able to configure the drives.

Thanks,
Myles




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