On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 03:06:30PM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > >Some of our commands use --no-floppy. Also supported in GRUB Legacy (by > >'find' > >or so, can't remember). Perhaps it's better to use that for consistency? > >It > >is the floppy scan which everyone hates; for other devices I don't think > >people will mind if GRUB spends a few ms on them. > > I don't know if it's relevant... but there is a situation that is maybe > similar when my MacBook boots up (before it even gets to GRUB), if > there's a CD in the drive, it wastes about 15 extra seconds spinning it > up to look at it, even if I'm not booting from CD. So that might be a > sort of thing to watch out for, when making GRUB search?
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