EHL board takes 5+ minutes to boot

[Doug Jacobs]

[Summary]The entire boot process, from power-on to Desktop, takes over 5 minutes. During the boot sequence even Ubuntu says some tasks are taking a long time. The boot sequence will pause, for over a minute, giving the mistaken impression it has hung/crashed but if you just leave it alone it eventually finishes.

[Steps to reproduce]
Install iotg-focal-desktop-20210706.img on EHL.
Boot the system. (keyboard, mouse, ethernet connected to USB-C hub.)

[Expected result]
System should boot within a reasonable amount of time.

[Actual result]
System takes over 5 minutes, with numerous long (>1 minute) pauses

[Failure rate]100%

[Additional information]
CID: 202105-29063
SKU:
system-manufacturer: Intel Corporation
system-product-name: Elkhart Lake Embedded Platform
bios-version: EHLSFWI1.R00.2091.A00.2002250754
CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU 0000 @ 1.90GHz (4x)
GPU: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:4571]
kernel-version: 5.11.0-1009-intel

[Stage]
Issue reported and logs collected right after it happened

[Doug Jacobs (djacobs98)]

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[Doug Jacobs (djacobs98)]

The EHL board boots from an internal SD Card which is probably part of the cause for the slow boot up. There is a slot for a nvme but it was not populated when we received the board.

[Sachin Mokashi (sachinmokashi)]

I believe this issue is resolved. Can you please close this bug.

[Kent Lin (kent-jclin)]

This issue is fixed with 1007 Kernel + BIOS update.

[Doug Jacobs (djacobs98)]

This was a very old board and BIOS which later stopped working entirely. Other EHL boards with the latest hardware revisions and BIOS do not have this issue.