grub bootloader awfully slow!

wouzer · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2003 5:49 pm Post subject: grub bootloader awfully slow!

I have installed Gentoo on two computers; a Athlon XP 2000(stage one) and a Athlon 850 (stage 3). On the Athlon XP machine everything goes verry smooth, but on the Athlon 850 grub takes ages to show the boot menu. This is what I get:

GRUB loading stage 1.5. : at least 30 secs
GRUB loading, please wait... : at least 1 minute.

Any ideas? The machine has 512 Mb ram and a 7200 HD.
Is it the stage 3 install?
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Malakin · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 3:01 am Post subject:

Not sure why it's slow but I can tell you that it should take almost no time, less then a second.

nbensa · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 3:20 am Post subject:

I have a similar problem. In a P3 1GHz and a P2 300, Grub is really fast, i.e., no delay. But on a K6 300, and a PMMX 233, it takes almost two seconds to load.

All these systems have similar configurations: /boot is a separate minix partition, one cylinder long (~8MB.)

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Norberto

sfy · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 8:20 pm Post subject:

I have the same problem on a P4-2.4 Someone got any ideas?

wouzer · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 8:03 am Post subject:

no one any ideas? I'tts quite frustrating.
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think4urs11 · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 12:50 pm Post subject:

- did you check the cabling of the hd?
maybe an ATA-133 hd with an old cable or alike?

- did you check the bios settings for the hd?

would be my first suggestions, i don't believe this to be SW related
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galenjr · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:22 am Post subject:

i have the same problem. eventually teh grub screen appears, it jsut takes a long time. ive tried every possible solution offered on teh forums.

rcxAsh · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:27 am Post subject:

Recently, my Grub has gotten slow as well. Not sure of the cause. It was working fine before. The only thing that I can remember changing since then is disabling the floppy drive in the BIOS. I should try re-enabling it to see if Grub speeds up when I reboot later. Hmm. Do you think that could a factor?
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DarrenM · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:35 am Post subject:

Could be. I used to have 2 different brand HDD's in my machine. One had windows, the other had linux and Grub. If both drives were plugged in, Grub would take a couple minutes to show. Unplug the windows drive and it would come up instantly.

I couldn't figure it out and had to live with the problem until I went and bought a new drive to replace the windows one (which was quite old) then everything worked fine. My only guess is that grub is having some kind of device detection problem. Try playing around with your HDD auto detection, sequence on cables etc and see what happens.