RE: BIOS Problem
First: I don't know if it was the same for others, but your email came
as an attachment. I have not had that before on this list so I think it
may be your mail.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
> From: Thomas H. George [mailto:lists@tomgeorge.info]
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 12:02 PM
> Subject: OT: BIOS Problem
> Very slow bootup while grub tries repeatedly to get responses
> from a dead ide slave drive. If the ide slave drive is disconnected
> bios apparently spends a long time searching for ide drives and grub
> loads very slowly but, once loaded, boots the system quickly.
I have had similar issues. In one case, I was able to simply disable the
IDE connection within the BIOS. That BIOS had quite a few non-standard
features, and being able to disable certain devices, like the IDE, was a
bonus and not likely to be standard. I do not know your motherboard.
I also one tried to migrate a Debian install off of a IDE drive and onto
a SATA drive (all partitions including grub) and I found it to be really
slow. I tried updating grub and a few tricks I found on this group, but
I was never able to get it to boot right. The grub prompt came up pretty
quick but it took about ~5 minutes to properly load the Linux kernel and
start booting. Since everything I had was backed up, I just wiped the
system and started over. Worked fine after that. The best we could
figure was I had missed some link or pointer and it wasn't happy that it
had left IDE.
Hope this helps!
Have fun!
~S~
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