Re: painfully slow grub2 boot times
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:46:02 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
> (...)
>
>> As with many other people, I was experiencing a long delay (on the order
>> of a minute) between the "Welcome to GRUB" message and the appearance of
>> the boot menu when booting.
>
> Is that on Squeezy, Wheezy, other...?
It's been through several releases of Debian, ever since grub2
replaced grub (and I've been trying grub2 and reverting back to
grub-legacy every few months up until this week, when I finally had time
to sit down and fight with it for a couple of days).
>> Other people had suggested making sure the floppy drive is turned off in
>> the BIOS, and making sure your root file system is on the disk you're
>> booting from. Neither of these made any difference in my case.
>>
>> What *did* work was setting the disk access mode to LBA in the BIOS (it
>> had been set to Auto). I have no idea why this worked; on at least one
>> other machine I have, the BIOS is set to Auto disk access mode, and
>> there is no noticeable delay.
>
> I also started to experience a delay in GRUB2 (wheezy) but in another
> stage: after getting the boot menu, there's a noticeable interval until
> the system starts booting.
>
> Anyway, and back to the topic, I can't see a clear relation between the
> BIOS IDE disk mode (LBA/Large/Auto/CHS...) and a delay to get the GRUB2
> menu because GRUB2 code is supposedly loaded earlier, but it could be
> some sort of BIOS firmware bug :-?
I don't see any relation at all (if I did, I would have tried changing
it much earlier...). It seems to be when the grub2 code is loading...
Firmware bug isn't unlikely, now that you point it out. So... it's a
Biostar M7VIG 400 motherboard (yes, it's been faithfully playing sound
cues for Las Cruces Community Theatre since 2007!) with Phoenix
AwardBIOS.
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