Gene Heskett wrote: > 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. > Are you running on an x86_64 platform? On my 64-bit machine, grub is running in 32-bit mode and it takes a fair bit of time for the POST to GRUB transition, just like you describe. My theory is that it is taking time to mode-switch from 64-bit to 32-bit mode and then back. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
