From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EMkq0-0006qv-Gf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2005 11:20:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j94BAxtE021347; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 11:10:59 GMT Received: from mail.rol3.com (mail.rol3.com [212.101.152.14]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j94B7LkH020620 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 11:07:21 GMT Received: (qmail 28534 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2005 11:15:25 -0000 Received: from ac195.bs0.orca.ch ([212.101.154.195]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.rol3.com (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 4 Oct 2005 11:15:25 -0000 From: Folken To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB speed up Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 13:12:28 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <43420C7E.2050703@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <43420C7E.2050703@comcast.net> Organization: Das Allgemeine Chaos [tm] Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510041312.28475.folken@chaostreff.ch> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j94B7LkH020620 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j94BAxtX021347 X-Archives-Salt: e4e15d3b-87aa-4736-8cff-c21573892a68 X-Archives-Hash: 63c35efd79602d4a104b938c1ddfe40e On Tue October 4 2005 07.00, Pingveno wrote: > I've noticed that GRUB takes a rather long time to start up on my > computer. Granted, this is PII 550 Mhz. But it takes several seconds > just for GRUB, not for anything to do with the kernel starting. The > attached file is, obviously, my configuration file. BTW, the > commented out entries are just old. > > Any optimization ideas out there? title Linux 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 =A0 =A0 root (hd0,3) =A0 =A0 kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r8 init=3D"/linuxrc" root=3D/dev/ram= 0=20 real_root=3D/dev/hda1 video=3Dvesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1280x1024-16@85 udev =A0 =A0 initrd /initrd-2.6.11-gentoo-r8 Grub reads the data into ram as soon as it reads the kernel or initrd=20 line. The time it seems to wait, is the time required to load this into=20 ram. Since grub uses (i assume) bios calls, reading with those is much=20 slower than disk access through the modern os drivers.=20 I'd check for the size of the initrd, and see if its compressed. It=20 seems to lack the .gz extension so it might not be.=20 greetings,=20 - Folken --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list