On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 05:56:59PM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > 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.
Definitely not a GRUB bug, then ;-) -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
