Re: Long startup time with 2.6.18-4-ixp4xx on NSLU

[Tim Gilchrist <nfm@iinet.net.au>]

Lars C wrote:
>  It takes 15 minute or my Nslu to boot up with debian 2.6.18-4-ixp4xx 
> what may causes this problem? how can i debug this probelm?

I had a similar problem, which turned out to be a fsck happening every 
boot, as (I think) the hardware clock was wrong. I didn't realise that's 
what was happening until I enabled bootlogd as described here:

http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-nslu2-utils/trunk/debian/README.Debian?op=file


Once I did that, I  looked in /var/log/boot to see this:

Tue Jul 10 00:25:33 2007: /dev/sda3 has gone 2778 days without being 
checked, check forced.

...

Tue Jul 10 00:43:50 2007: done.


so it was taking roughly 20mins to fsck my 500gig data partition on 
every boot :)

Hope that helps,

Tim