slow grub

MartinZ · 2007-07-02 17:44:20

First of all, i hope this hasn't been discussed before. At least, i didn't find it.

I've experimented VERY slow grub load times when i shutdown wrong my pc. I think this may be normal, but i'm experimenting those slow bootups also when hibernating my machine, something like 50% times. I'm suspending it with s2disk script.

I really will appreciate some help with this.

Sigi · 2007-07-02 19:43:21

I'm sorry I can't provide a solution to your problem but I experience exactly the same issue on suspend2disk! I'm on a thinkpad T43 and the timeout for loading grub is sometimes about 10-15s and again 5-10s until it starts loading the chosen OS...

VuDu · 2007-07-03 09:53:39

I don't have that slow times, but compared to most of my friend's load time, my grub takes around 3/4 secs to show the menu, while my friend's pcs just take around 1 sec.

I didn't care much about it when I was on Ubuntu, but on arch those 4secs seem to last forever LoL

Last edited by VuDu (2007-07-03 09:54:16)

samoturk · 2007-07-03 10:31:28

It some times helps if you turn boot up floppy seek on in BIOS. I don't know why..

MartinZ · 2007-07-04 03:09:14

Turn ON? How weird... well, i'll try and tell.
Anyway, i thing i'm gonna use lilo if grub keeps giving me headache.

VuDu · 2007-07-04 08:16:46

It should not have anything to do with that because many computers nowadays don't even have floppy drives.
My laptop for instance.... doesn't even has a floppy seek option on BIOS.

samoturk · 2007-07-04 18:35:08

VuDu wrote:

It should not have anything to do with that because many computers nowadays don't even have floppy drives.
My laptop for instance.... doesn't even has a floppy seek option on BIOS.

I also don't even have floppy, but grub ads it in device.map.. Like I said it might help but it might not. When I disable boot up floppy seek in BIOS, grub loads slowly and I don't know why.

MartinZ · 2007-07-10 04:57:59

Well, i'm using lilo right now (since 3 days) and boots fine and fast no matter what i did last time.

VuDu · 2007-07-10 09:56:23

I think I'll try that too, I only have Arch, and on a 30/40 secs boot it's lame to waste 3/4secs with "loading grub" and a blinking cursor

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#1 2007-07-02 17:44:20

slow grub

#2 2007-07-02 19:43:21

Re: slow grub

#3 2007-07-03 09:53:39

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#5 2007-07-04 03:09:14

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#6 2007-07-04 08:16:46

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#7 2007-07-04 18:35:08

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