Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

[Mick]

On Thursday 03 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've
> installed grub with
> for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done

My knowledge of bash is less than rudimentary, therefore I am not sure what 
this does - can you please explain (in plain English).  Did you only 
have /dev/hdd mounted at the time of installation?  What else is connected to 
the controller that hdd is connected to?

> Now the system boots correctly but it takes ages (>10sec) to come from
> "Grub loading Stage1.5"
> to
> "Grub loading, please wait..."
> and then another 10sec or more to open the menu.

That's rather a lot!  I have certainly noticed that when /boot is installed in 
the last partition of relatively large disks it takes longer for grub to come 
up, but I am getting ~4sec on a 250G SATA, not >20sec like yours.

> I think I had this problem a long time ago but I can't remember the
> solution. Can anyone help?

I'd be interested to know if there is a solution.  I had taken it as a given 
that if grub is not at the start of a disk it takes longer to boot.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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