From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: System takes a long time to boot. Seems to hang for a long time at: Intializing hardware... [something else] storage After about 45 minutes system finishes booting. I don't know if it's related but several CPUs log a "BUG: write-lock lockup". See dmesg output. This system is a 4 processor Xeon system with HT enabled. 4 Gig of RAM lots of SCSI disks configured as SW raid. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-smp-2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot kernel-smp-2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 Actual Results: System takes a long time to boot Expected Results: System should not hang for a long period in the initializing hardware stage Additional info: Using udev-071-0.FC4.2 kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 did not behave this way
Created attachment 124148 [details] dmesg
Created attachment 124149 [details] /var/log/messages Notice the time difference on the first messages from the shutdown to the start of the next boot.
Created attachment 124150 [details] grub.conf
Problem seems to have disappeared with 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4smp Weird. The changelog does not indicate that much changed. No more delay on boot. No more BUG: messages.