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Nvm, yet another hardware problem.
The computer will boot relatively quickly, fd's disconnected, but when I get to grub it takes a couple minutes to load. I found this post,
On two different boxes here (amd64 and i386), Gentoo-2.6.17, sys-boot/grub-0.97-r2, the following actions (as partially described in earlier posts) have helped the speed of the appearance of the grub splashscreen:
1. Get fd0 out of the System.map file
2. Disable the floppy drive interface in the BIOS. Period.
3. Make sure the primary boot drive in the BIOS is NOT a CD/DVD drive.
4. Make sure the primary boot drive in the BIOS is the hard disk where the /boot partition resides.Now when the BIOS looks for the MBR and the bootloader, if installed in the gentoo way, there ain't many other places it will (can?) try to consult before finding the main partition (hd0,0) , (sd0,0) etc., and grub seems to load as you would expect; no delays.
And the only option I haven't tried is 1. Because I'm not sure what to take out of /boot/System.map26... Does anyone have any insight into this? I should also add, it only happens with old AMD systems, my old slot 1 PIII boots quickly w/ no problems.
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