On Tue, 18 May 2021 at 20:02, Mouse <mo...@rodents-montreal.org> wrote: > > I'm dealing with a turnkey product running under 9.1/amd64. On certain > hardware, there is a pause, almost exactly 22 seconds, during autoconf. > I'm trying to eliminate it. A sufficiently cut-down kernel does the > job, but another cut-down kernel doesn't. I'm trying to track down > what's responsible. (The kernel that eliminates the pause is used by > the installer; the one that doesn't is the one that's used in normal > operation. Unless it turns out to be something essential for > operation, I'd like to cut it out of the operational kernel.) [...] > [ 3.288539] uhub2: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered > [ 3.288539] uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered > [ 25.272567] wd0 at atabus0 drive 0 > [ 25.273568] wd0: <ST500DM002-1BD142>
I'd take a long hard look at what ata or atapi devices were configured in the kernel - smells like a timeout (though I would have expected 30 seconds...) Though that seems obvious enough to have already been checked :-p David