[Soekris] Soekris net5501 boot delay

[Darrick Hartman (lists)]

java at neposoft.com wrote:
> Confirm , same happens here,
> I shut down my box, and when plugged in, I waited like 5 min and nothing
> happened.
> Once I connected my null serial onto my monitor, it started to  boot up.
> Hopefully we get a hint of what is going on.
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> We have a Soekris net5501 using a Slackware distribution on it. However,
>> if there is no serial cable attached, we encounter a boot delay of about
>> 10 minutes. Is there a BIOS setting or something to circumvent this
>> behaviour?

Sounds like the bootloader (is Slackware still using lilo?) is waiting 
for a console to be ready before booting.  Can you post your lilo.conf 
(or grub.conf if they switched to grub)?

Darrick
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