Confirming this bug for me too. If I set debug=disk in grub.cfg I can see GRUB agressivly reading from the harddisk. It especially searches hd0, where Windows Vista lives.
I removed every search command in grub.cfg, still it is searching the HD, I think, thats because it is looking for the GRUB modules. I had grub2 installed under Intrepid, that worked like a charm (but that was 1.96 not 1.97). Since the update I have this annoying problem. fdisk -l output: Platte /dev/sda: 160.0 GByte, 160041885696 Byte 255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 19457 Zylinder Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes Disk identifier: 0x30000000 Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System /dev/sda1 1 15 120456 de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 16 1321 10485760 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 * 1321 19131 143060992 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda4 19131 19458 2621440 f W95 Erw. (LBA) /dev/sda5 19131 19458 2620416 dd Unbekannt Platte /dev/sdb: 160.0 GByte, 160041885696 Byte 255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 19457 Zylinder Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes Disk identifier: 0xad5de7fd Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System /dev/sdb2 * 1 19457 156288321 5 Erweiterte /dev/sdb5 1 498 4000122 82 Linux Swap / Solaris /dev/sdb6 499 1020 4192933+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb7 1021 16686 125837110+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb8 16687 19457 22258026 83 Linux Please make this bug critical. -- Current grub-pc takes several minutes to show menu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/420933 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
