Re: Huge Delay (CVS) or No Boot (0.92)

[Sean Kormilo]

Okuji,

I've narrowed the problem down to the new serial port support.

The first 2 lines of my menu.lst are:

serial --unit=1 --speed=9600
terminal --timeout=0 serial

I noticed via printf()s that it hangs immediately following the terminal
command. I then removed those 'terminal' line from my startup and lo and
behold no delay, and the system booted just fine.

I'm going to see if I can dig up any more details. One other difference
about my configuration is that I have my bios set to redirect the
console output to the serial port.

Sean.


> At 10 Sep 2002 10:05:11 -0400,
> Sean Kormilo wrote:
> > I'd love to help out, but am not familiar with the mechanisms for
> > obtaining GRUB debug information. If you could give me a few pointers,
> > I'd be happy to take a look.
> 
> You can use grub_printf (or printf) in the same way as libc's
> printf. I think it would be the best to examine the function
> "init_bios_info" in the file "stage2/common.c", because it is the
> startup function in the C level. Insert some printf calls and see
> where GRUB will stop.
> 
> Thanks,
> Okuji
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Sean C. Kormilo, STORM Software Architect, Nortel Networks
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