Re: Bullseye (mostly) not booting on Proliant DL380 G7

[Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz>]

On 6/29/21 1:29 PM, Claudio Kuenzler wrote:
> Hi Georgi
> 
>     I noticed that kernel logs you posted are between 62nd - 64th second
>     after kernel loading. Why is the boot process so slow?
> 
> 
> Due to a disabled SATA device in BIOS, the kernel tries to do an ERST
> and SRST and does this until 60s after boot. 
> That's OK, it's been the same on Buster, too.
>  
> 
>     If you think that video driver can be an issue then you can try to
>     configure the system not to use framebuffer (if the system
>      doesn't use GUI).
> 
> 
> Could you tell me how? Or a reference to it?
> 
> In the meantime I re-configured grub to boot with the following parameters:
> 
> debug rootwait earlyprintk=vga,keep earlycon pause_on_oops=5 panic=60 no_console_suspend
> 

I have not done this but found that article:

https://atkdinosaurus.wordpress.com/2017/03/23/how-to-almost-disable-framebuffer-in-ubuntu/

Kind regards
Georgi