Robert Millan wrote:
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?
Does it happen before or after you get the "Welcome to GRUB!" message?
*That* happens even if I never enter grub at all -- so I guess you would
say "before". GRUB doesn't have that problem for me as far as I know,
but the only things I have in my config are (hd0,x) -- no boot-from-CD
option, only the Linuxes on the disk that I have configured precisely
and numerically.
look, here is my boot sequence:
EFI firmware boots the MacOSX partition by default, if I don't hold down
"option"/"alt" (if I do, then the firmware puts up a menu of choices).
rEFIt is installed in such a way that it is booted rather the standard
MacOSX at that point. It puts up a nice menu of choices including
MacOS, any bootable CD/DVDs, and all the GRUBs it can find. It's
rEFIt's appearance that is delayed when there's a CD in the drive.
rEFIt knows how to boot both EFI and BIOS GRUBs.
-- MacOSX: boots normally if selected in rEFIt.
-- GRUB2: well, you know about that. From there, I can potentially boot
my Linuxes that are on various of my partitions.
-Isaac
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