Package: linux-2.6 Severity: important Version: 2.6.18-6 Tags: d-i Since d-i switched to 2.6.18 I'm seeing significant delays during boot of the installer in two places. See dmesg fragment below (full dmesg attached).
If I boot the installer with an RC1 image (using 2.6.17), there are no noticeable delays at all in the boot process. dmesg attached as well for comparison, although I don't see any significant differences. Both delays with 2.6.18 are completely reproducible. <snip> Memory: 154944k/163840k available (1500k kernel code, 8280k reserved, 602k data, 256k init, 0k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. *** significant delay of about 5-7 seconds *** Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3222.25 BogoMIPS (lpj=6444502) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Disabled at boot. Capability LSM initialized Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 512K CPU: After all inits, caps: 0febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00000000 00000000 00000000 Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000. CPU: Intel Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz stepping 08 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. ACPI: Core revision 20060707 ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 *** significant delay of about 8-10 seconds *** checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 4182k freed </snip>
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