On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:46:02 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: (...)
> 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. Is that on Squeezy, Wheezy, other...? > 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. I also started to experience a delay in GRUB2 (wheezy) but in another stage: after getting the boot menu, there's a noticeable interval until the system starts booting. Anyway, and back to the topic, I can't see a clear relation between the BIOS IDE disk mode (LBA/Large/Auto/CHS...) and a delay to get the GRUB2 menu because GRUB2 code is supposedly loaded earlier, but it could be some sort of BIOS firmware bug :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/jh0r5t$to9$6...@dough.gmane.org
