Re: Trying to deug initramfs boot delay
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 12:50:13AM +0100, Michael Lange wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed bullseye (32-bit) onto a Lenovo IdeaPad 100S laptop. The
> system generalliy runs fine, however there is a minor nuisance with a
> delay of about 40 sec. at the begining of the boot process at the
> "Loading initial ramdisk..." stage.
>
I have one of these: I found that the multi-arch .iso worked better.
The UEFI in these is 32 bti, the processor is 64 bit - that might
have something to do with it, particularly if there's some alignment
issue.
Mine doesn't stop for many seconds - but that's only one datum point.
I think Charles Curley is also installing on one, too.
I used the unofficial .iso including non-free firmware.
> available hard drive partitions, which somehow at some point seems to
> fail.
> I don't really know what the function that is responsible here tries to
> do, but it looks like a lot of lines to me for the three partitions on the
> laptop's drive (output of lsblk:
>
> NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
> mmcblk2 179:0 0 29,1G 0 disk
> ├─mmcblk2p1 179:1 0 100M 0 part /boot/efi
> ├─mmcblk2p2 179:2 0 3,4G 0 part [SWAP]
> └─mmcblk2p3 179:3 0 22,9G 0 part /
> mmcblk2boot0 179:256 0 4M 1 disk
> mmcblk2boot1 179:512 0 4M 1 disk
>
> cont. of /etc/fstab:
>
> # / was on /dev/mmcblk1p3 during installation
> UUID=ba9bd08f-5a25-4e42-95a4-ce0fa41be38d / ext4
> errors=remount-ro 0 1
> # /boot/efi was on /dev/mmcblk1p1 during installation
> UUID=78BA-12AF /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1
> # swap was on /dev/mmcblk1p2 during installation
> UUID=e1016bf0-5a98-4269-9e94-01ec54f1d541 none swap
> sw 0 0
>
> )
>
> Does anyone have a clue if either of these two things might be the
> problem here, or -if not- what else I could try to identify the problem's
> source?
>
> Thanks in advance, and have a nice day,
>
> Michael
>
With every good wish, as ever,
Andrew Cater
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