This isn't a cry for help, it's a "what worked for me", in hopes that it'll get indexed and other people can be saved the two days I spent finding it.
As with many other people, I was experiencing a long delay (on the order of a minute) between the "Welcome to GRUB" message and the appearance of the boot menu when booting. Other people had suggested making sure the floppy drive is turned off in the BIOS, and making sure your root file system is on the disk you're booting from. Neither of these made any difference in my case. What *did* work was setting the disk access mode to LBA in the BIOS (it had been set to Auto). I have no idea why this worked; on at least one other machine I have, the BIOS is set to Auto disk access mode, and there is no noticeable delay. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1bd39oltpx....@pfeifferfamily.net
