I am re-opening the bug.
** Description changed: - I'm using Hardy. Nothing happens for 50 seconds during bootup. There is - only a blinking cursor on the screen after the grub menu. After the 50 - seconds the splash screen appears. This problem only occurs on cold - start, it doesn't happen when I just reboot. I have an HP nw8440 laptop. - I'm attaching my dmesg and lspci -vv output. + Grub long sequential reads are extremely slow from USB2.0 HDD/FLASH drives. + Reading vmlinuz(4.6MB) + initrd(18MB) takes several minutes. - Update: I've found out that initrd is read really slowly and this is + Issues affects all grub versions until current in Natty + (1.99~rc1-13ubuntu1). + + + Affected chipsets: + Intel 915 + Nvidia MCP79 (both native and AHCI) + + Original description: + I'm using Hardy. Nothing happens for 50 seconds during bootup. There is only a blinking cursor on the screen after the grub menu. After the 50 seconds the splash screen appears. This problem only occurs on cold start, it doesn't happen when I just reboot. I have an HP nw8440 laptop. I'm attaching my dmesg and lspci -vv output. + + Old Update: I've found out that initrd is read really slowly and this is causing the long delay during boot. Please read comment #27: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/247960/comments/27 ** Summary changed: - initrd image is read really slowly when booting from USB2.0 HDD + Grub long sequential reads are extremely slow from USB2.0 HDD/FLASH drives -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247960 Title: Grub long sequential reads are extremely slow from USB2.0 HDD/FLASH drives -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
