On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 02 October 2008, Kam Leo wrote: >>On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >>> On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Kam Leo wrote: >>>>On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> wrote: >>>>> Greetings; >>>>> >>>>> I built a new box yesterday, and one of the things I'm seeing is about a >>>>> 10 second lag between the bios clearing the screen after doing its >>>>> thing, and the "Loading Grub stage 2", which stays on screen for several >>>>> seconds, then its blanked for another 10 secs or so, and finally the >>>>> grub 'choice' menu comes up. >>>>> >>>>> This is with the new grub. One thing I had done on the previous mobo >>>>> was to have just one entry in /boot/grub/devices, but I see that has >>>>> been reset by something from /dev/sdb to /dev/sda, presumably by >>>>> upgrading grub this morning. >>>>> >>>>> The bios is set to boot from the first ide, which is (hd0,0) I believe. >>>>> >>>>> What can I post that might be of interest?, just ask. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Cheers, Gene >>>> >>>>What new grub? As far as I am aware there has been no update to grub. >>> >>> The one that's been sitting in updates for 2-3 months, scared to install >>> it because my drive mapping was fubar on that biostar mobo with its >>> outboard sata controller. Now on this asus, it seems like hd0,0 is indeed >>> /dev/sda1, aka /boot in the label. Anyway, it worked. >>> >>> -- >>> Cheers, Gene >> >>Why didn't you state that you were running F8? If it makes you feel >>any better here is the changelog for grub-0.97-33.1-fc8: > > I thought I did at first, but CRS could make a liar out of me. Sorry. > >>Changelog >> >>* Thu May 29 2008 Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx> - 0.97-33.1 >> - Backport F-9's grub to F-8. >>* Tue Apr 08 2008 Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx> - 0.97-33 >> - Rewrite ia32 efi call wrapper to make the makefile simpler. >> >>F9's grub is at 0.97-33. The previous version for F8 was 0.97-33. > > That is the same numbers. Typu? > >>Unless Peter Jones made some dramatic changes I don't see how this >>backporting is going to adversely affect your system. > > Thanks. But this still does not explain why grub itself is so slow. > > After the bios is done, then the next thing one normally sees is the "Grub > stage 2 loading", but I'm watching a monitor telling me there is no input > drive for about 12 seconds between the bios clearing the screen, and that > printout. > > And normally that just sort of flickers for a few milliseconds, but that now > stays on screen for 2 or 3 seconds, then the screen is cleared again, and > about 10 seconds later the boot choice menu finally pops up. This only took > maybe 2 seconds total on the old motherboard, now it's a good 20-25 seconds > from the bios clearing the screen to the boot selection menu. > > Its that time that I'm fussing about. > > -- > Cheers, Gene Have you checked the boot order in your BIOS settings? Also do you happen to have non-bootable media in your CD/DVD drive? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
