Rick Commo wrote: > Built up a new box this weekend based on the ASUS A7V133 mainboard. Running > a Duron 850Mhz. > > No major problems getting things going but am seeing something funny with > Grub. When I select my Debian partition, grub starts but there is a 30 > second delay before the kernel uncompresses. Weird. It also happens if I > select the SUSe partition. > > I tried using the IBM disk (which is ATA/100) on the Primary ATA/100 IDE > channel and it came up as HDE. Since the box had a DVD and SUSe came with a > DVD-ROM I tried installing that first. It worked, but there was always this > long delay while some part of the boot went looking for hda and hdb. So I > gave up and put the disk back on the primary IDE channel.
I'm not certain, but this sounds suspiciously like an A7V bios problem...and possibly not a problem with grub. Check out question 6 on this webpage: http://www.asus.com/Products/Techref/Faq/Mbmm/mb200010.html My A7V has bios version 1004 and it doesn't experience the delay. Incidently, my Promise driver is at 2.01 (build 28). HTH, -- Mike Brownlow http://www.wsmake.org/~mike/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1024D/8AA6EAFD 3861 96B3 EEA2 285C BE23 F706 3E1E EBB2 8AA6 EAFD "Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins." Pr10:12
