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mariux2
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 Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 9:16 am Post subject: GRUB uses over a minute to load |
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Hi, this is my first time runnning gentoo and everything is working fine. The only problem si the GRUB uses over a minute to load on startup.
The message on the screen is something like:
| Code: | Loading stage 1.5
Please wait while GRUB is loading.... |
After over a minute the bootselector come up and i can boot gentoo.
Everything is <working>, but its kinda anoying to have a boottime on about 2 minutes.
The /boot/grub/grub.conf looks like this:
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timeout 10
default 0
fallback 1
# For booting GNU/Linux
title Gentoo
root (hd1,0)
kernel (hd1,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hdd3
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I have /boot/grub/menu.lst linked to /boot/grub/grub.conf
hdd1 is my /boot partition and its ext3
hdd2 is my swap
hdd3 is my / partition and its ReiserFS
Does anyone know what might be wrong? |
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mr45acp
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 9:31 am Post subject: |
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| Please post if you find the answer to this. I have the same problem on one computer. I'm thinking it may have something to do with the motherboard and its "raid" controller (MSI KT3 Ultra2 R). |
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mariux2
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 9:56 am Post subject: |
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| Well, i dont have a Raid-controller..... |
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mr45acp
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 10:20 am Post subject: |
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So much for that theory, then  |
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water
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 10:56 am Post subject: |
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Could you post your fstab?
And check your bios-settings.
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mariux2
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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my /etc/fstab
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GNU nano 1.2.1 File: /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.12 2003/03/11 02:50:53 azarah Exp $
#
# noatime turns of atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail and tail freely.
# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/hdd1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/hdd3 / reiserfs noatime 0 0
/dev/hdd2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/ntfs ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0
#/dev/hda1 /mnt/c ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
# Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
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(tab doesnt work so i tried to make it look ok by adding space....)
My bios-settings are much to brag about, its a compaq pc with a compaq family-bios:-D |
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mariux2
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:38 am Post subject: |
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| noone? |
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Earthwings
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 9:50 am Post subject: |
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the problem could be a large harddrive:
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GRUB hangs when accessing my large IDE disk.
If your disk is bigger than 32GB, probably updating your mainboard BIOS will solve your problem. This bug is well-known and most vendors should provide fixed versions. For example, if you have ASUS-P3BF, upgrading the BIOS to V1007beta1 or later can fix it. Please ask your vendor, for more information.
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from http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub/index.html
please read through the grub docs. |
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mariux2
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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Should i install LILO if i cant update my BIOS?
Will it work ok? |
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