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xnevermore

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Registered: 2006-09-14

Posts: 3

Grub loading slowly

Recently, I made some hard drive changes (/dev/hdc now /dev/hda, /dev/hdd now /dev/hdb), made all the approriate changes to menu.1st and /etc/fstab, but now grub takes a REALLY long time to load -- about 4 minutes to get to the boot menu. First it hangs on "GRUB Loading stage1.5..." for a while, then "Loading grub. please wait...". It boots fine after loading, but a process that used to take seconds is taking minutes now and I don't understand why.

Here's my menu.1st file:

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hdb3 ro
initrd /initrd26.img

# (1) Arch Linux Beyond
title Arch Linux Beyond
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26beyond root=/dev/hdb3 ro
initrd /initramfs-beyond.img

# (2) Windows
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Hard drive setup is like this:

/dev/hda1: Main windows partition
/dev/hda2: Secondary windows partition
/dev/hdb1: /boot partiton
/dev/hdb2: swap partition
/dev/hdb3: / partition

Any ideas?

vacant

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From: downstairs

Registered: 2004-11-05

Posts: 816

Re: Grub loading slowly

Did you change /boot/grub/device.map and then run grub-install?

xnevermore

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Registered: 2006-09-14

Posts: 3

Re: Grub loading slowly

Yep... device.map is ok and tried re-runing grub-install.

Nothing.

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Grub loading slowly

I had a similar problem, using lilo now because of it.

Old 20gb disk got bad sectors and I replaced it with an identical spare. Partitions were hde1 (swap, 1gb), hde2 (/boot, 32mb), hde3 (/, 5gb), hde4 (/home, the rest). I created the same partitions with Knoppix on the new drive, mkswap, mkfs and so on... and copied the files over with rsync. But from then on, no matter how many times and if from within Arch or with rescue cds I ran grub -> setup (hd0) or grub-install /dev/hde -- it shows "loading stage 1.5", then black screen, probes cdrom and reboots.

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xnevermore

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Registered: 2006-09-14

Posts: 3

Re: Grub loading slowly

Still looking to solve this problem...

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: Grub loading slowly

one note: atleast on my system there is no menu.1st there is only menu.lst (with an L not a 1). Maybe that's your problem, i don't know.

I think some setting in the bios also could cause this but i'm not sure.

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