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Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Grub takes ages to load with suspend/s2disk

Hi

I'd like to use suspend on my laptop but I've got a problem. Grub loads for about 15 seconds if I suspend the system to disk which makes the use of it quite pointless. The problem seems to be that my root partition is reiserfs and that I don't have a separate boot-partition. Grub scans the partition for ages until it brings up the menu. So I saw to options to solve my problem but both options don't seem to work for me:

- Make a separate boot partition:

I've got 3 primary partitions, one of them is a swap partition, and an extended partition with other partitions in there:

/dev/sda1   *           1         832     6289888+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2             833         976     1088640   82  Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3             986        7751    51150960    f  W95 Erw. (LBA)
/dev/sda5             986        3551    19398928+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6            3552        5840    17304808+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sda7            5841        6991     8701528+  83  Linux
/dev/sda8            6992        7751     5745568+  83  Linux

I tried to decrease the size of the swap partition and create a boot-partition but as I already have 4 primary partitions I'm unable to create a new one.

- Use grub2

I thought about trying grub2, there's even a package in the AUR. Is there anyone who has successfully used grub2?

As this is my only PC around atm, I don't wanna trash it

Any advice welcome!

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