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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: kern/3375: Ten minute delay at boot-time
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>I just noticed this thread... Excuse me for jumping in, but I had very
>similar problem, which turned out to be a broken RTC on-board chip. (I
>also went through changing the timeout value in clock.c . Why is it so
>ridiculously big??).

Because timeouts can't happen :-) and it needs to be big enough for
next year's machines with faster i/o.

Bruce