I have had a similar problem under edgy, feisty, gutsy, and hardy beta, but I finally found this page explaining it: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/grub-very- slow-427442/ . The problem seems to be that grub has a problem finding files on the /boot directory when it is on a reiserfs partition. I installed hardy release candidate reformatting / as an ext3 partition, and now I don't don't have the 30 second pause while grub is "starting up," and another delay before loading the image. So I think this *is* a bug in grub, but it does have a workaround.
-- latest GRUB hangs on "Grub loading, please wait..." on both 32 and 64 bit boxes [Gutsy] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/185341 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
