Re: Grub2 EFI: Image loading from USB takes too long

2011-04-14 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 15.04.2011 04:45, Bean wrote: > Hi, > > I believe this is caused by the read algorithm of grub2. If the file > is continuous, grub legacy will read it in one pass, while grub2 will > break it up into small blocks, this will slow it down dramatically. I > haven't tested efi, but in bios mode, som

Recovery Partitions

2011-04-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Could grub2 give a menu item for Recovery Partitions? It finds Windows on sda2 on Ntfs but not the Windows Recovery Partition on sda1 on Fat16? Could i edit the menu "on the fly" as i might have done with grub legacy or would the prober thing need editing? Apols for the broken way Yahoo

Re: Grub2 EFI: Image loading from USB takes too long

2011-04-14 Thread Bean
Hi, I believe this is caused by the read algorithm of grub2. If the file is continuous, grub legacy will read it in one pass, while grub2 will break it up into small blocks, this will slow it down dramatically. I haven't tested efi, but in bios mode, sometimes it takes twice as long for grub2 to r

[Fwd: wiki]

2011-04-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I don't have access to modify this page, but the link Reinhardrefers to does need to be removed. -- Bruce Original Message Subject: wiki Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:04:01 +0200 From: Reinhard Echle To: Dear Bruce, sorry, I didn't found an address to report a stupid link i