On Thursday 02 October 2008, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: >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? No, the installed compiler is 32 bit only. >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. Possibly, but that sure seems like an excessive amount of time just to switch modes, and it would only be from 64 to 32 anyway. I am using 32 bit kernels, home brewed, and just last night got the PAE turned on in 2.6.27-rc8-4, the -4 indicating its built smp etc. But that makes no diff in the wasted time. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) "No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid." -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
