Bug#505579: kernel's loading taking 2 or 3 minutes

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 06:06:10PM +0100, Xavier Brochard wrote:
> Le vendredi 14 novembre 2008 17:05:35, vous avez écrit :
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 07:17:38PM +0100, Xavier Brochard wrote:
> > > I've had problems booting with Lilo: kernel's loading take 2 or 3 minutes
> > > (may be even more).
> >
> > Please provide the complete log. Current kernels provides wallclock
> > information in every log entry.
> 
> Hope dmesg is what you need, but there is not much information.
> The slowness is before the kernel boot, while Lilo is loading the kernel, 
> before loading initrd and before the kernel boot.

This is likely rather a lilo than a kernel bug. Is there a specific reason
you're using the deprecated lilo rather than grub or grub2?

Cheers,
        Moritz