UEFI issues booting into FAI sysinfo on Dell PowerEdge

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Mon, 2018-09-03 at 15:41:07 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 15:31:44 +0200, Steffen Grunewald <steffen.grunewald at aei.mpg.de> said:
> 
>     > On Mon, 2018-09-03 at 14:44:54 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
>     > I remember that the "legacy" sysinfo run also took a long while to get started,
>     > so it might be hardware-specific.
> If the boot/startup process of FAI takes a long time, it's maybe this issue:
> https://github.com/faiproject/fai/commit/42abe35ed4d5a8c6f63e3bd334f4ab7339e
> 
> Without this fix, rsyslogd may need a long time to start is some situations.

Interesting, but I don't see this on other machines - and my FAI version has this
fix already incorporated (5.7 from the koeln repository).
I guess the delay is caused by the large initrd (30 MB).
I'm lucky not to be bitten by the watchdog then...

- S