On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Gregory Anthony wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm not sure what caused the problem. I rebooted my server, only to find
> that it now gets stuck
> at "Calibrating delay loop." Using different floppies didn't work. Using
> different distros (including a
> clean Bering 1.1 version) didn't work, so I'm inclined to think it's hardware.
>
> Any ideas? I've removed the NICs and it still occurs. Replaced them and it
> still occurs...
"Delay loop" is a short little do-nothing loop that lets the kernel delay
for a very short period of time... one that is too short to schedule a
wakeup to resume. "Calibrating" means correlating the length of time each
loop corresponds to, so that when a kernel driver asks for 10us the delay
subroutine knows how many times to go through the loop.
Knowing that, there is a key piece of hardware that has to be working in
order to accomplish this task... and possibly a low-tech fix (think
"battery"). If that doesn't do it, and the BIOS doesn't provide any
clues for enabling/disabling the hardware, then you may need a new
motherboard.
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