Re: GRUB really slow to boot
Disk looks OK to me.
Next, check no USB devices are connected while it boots.
Disable "quiet" boot mode, so you can see all the boot up messages.
This will give you an idea where it is going slow.
On Sat, 18 Dec 2021 at 22:39, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 10:23:54PM +0000, James Dutton wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is most likely a failing disk.
> > Please post the output of:
> > smartctl -a /dev/sda
> >
> > or whatever your disk device name is, if not sda
>
>
> smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.10.0-10-amd64] (local build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
>
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Model Family: Toshiba 3.5" DT01ACA... Desktop HDD
> Device Model: TOSHIBA DT01ACA100
> Serial Number: Y78SML4NS
> LU WWN Device Id: 5 000039 fd3d8d58f
> Firmware Version: MS2OA800
> User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
> Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
> Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
> Form Factor: 3.5 inches
> Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
> ATA Version is: ACS-2, ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
> SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
> Local Time is: Sat Dec 18 17:38:18 2021 EST
> SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
> SMART support is: Enabled
>
> === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
> SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
>
> General SMART Values:
> Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity
> was suspended by an interrupting command from host.
> Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
> Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
> without error or no self-test has ever
> been run.
> Total time to complete Offline
> data collection: ( 7313) seconds.
> Offline data collection
> capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
> Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
> Suspend Offline collection upon new
> command.
> Offline surface scan supported.
> Self-test supported.
> No Conveyance Self-test supported.
> Selective Self-test supported.
> SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
> power-saving mode.
> Supports SMART auto save timer.
> Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
> General Purpose Logging supported.
> Short self-test routine
> recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
> Extended self-test routine
> recommended polling time: ( 122) minutes.
> SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
> SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
> SCT Feature Control supported.
> SCT Data Table supported.
>
> SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
> Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
> 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 099 016 Pre-fail Always - 0
> 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0027 142 100 054 Pre-fail Always - 71
> 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0023 127 100 024 Pre-fail Always - 180 (Average 180)
> 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 46
> 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0
> 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0
> 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0025 118 100 020 Pre-fail Offline - 33
> 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 34433
> 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0033 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0
> 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 46
> 183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
> 184 End-to-End_Error 0x0033 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
> 185 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 65535
> 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
> 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
> 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
> 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 067 059 000 Old_age Always - 33 (Min/Max 32/37)
> 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 58
> 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 58
> 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 181 150 000 Old_age Always - 33 (Min/Max 20/41)
> 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
> 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
>
> SMART Error Log Version: 1
> No Errors Logged
>
> SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
> Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
> # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 1 -
>
> SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
> SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
> 1 0 0 Not_testing
> 2 0 0 Not_testing
> 3 0 0 Not_testing
> 4 0 0 Not_testing
> 5 0 0 Not_testing
> Selective self-test flags (0x0):
> After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
> If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
>
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