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Subject: Re: Abnormal long pause in boot
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On  5 Jan, Doug White wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Ryan Sommers wrote:
> 
>> I rebuilt my CURRENT kernel last week and ever since then I was noticing
>> a very long pause in the boot that wasn't in there before. Here is the
>> dmesg chunk on a boot -v:
> 
> Some ATA controllers need some extra handholding and can take a while to
> probe.
> 
> The stuff after the delay is firewire though, so it might be FW trying to
> initialize the channel.

My laptop has this problem.  The delay goes away if I remove firewire
from the kernel.  I don't have anything to plug into the port anyway.