From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KEWvm-0008Iz-TD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:05:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18948E0349; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:05:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.241]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8433E0349 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:05:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so1036344rvf.46 for ; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:05:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=ODKFT9z+ybVCTQAZBTGvkMCIk8Ubarr/vCsbe1Uy1TI=; b=UhBdTu7F60p1YWjLoyznh9KKsrUzMYkbHGt509bCsVES9gCFHEc46TI3EmeQOkRA2R LXRCZyabgLF62gx7K/hWk4ZZIwMhdXGkkVxHmLw8dsM3l8KjSyonBG41by+FnAWDNN8Z o8lcLngJFqY8GITwfZJzTlJbxZIcWRN5/ZJ74= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=W+tKh+ykHcgafNJc2LamZ8ZpM9ej37XTYOK55vJ0CYkIQ4II4ZX4I54RAhrzhzwtEi 4f9TcNBJQ3oZnzZn3Zbkss62MCKd/ysM2Mv9SaP98ig1YZQf3dmtbTUudZOlRQfZQ90+ zwTDcC3DHOTqdDZI0aPEq1h+2F+KFCFxrNlgY= Received: by 10.114.169.2 with SMTP id r2mr1738076wae.132.1215122732060; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:05:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy.study ( [212.159.46.48]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t12sm1271387gvd.10.2008.07.03.15.05.00 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:05:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:04:26 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <20080703174838.5415a54a@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> In-Reply-To: <20080703174838.5415a54a@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1725762.6x9aXcYhET"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200807032304.57890.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 3bfb7ffb-c7af-4e3b-b13b-353a615f0a9b X-Archives-Hash: 7166e6a38ec2411a54a9539e3cb3241f --nextPart1725762.6x9aXcYhET Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 03 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi! > > I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've > installed grub with > for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done My knowledge of bash is less than rudimentary, therefore I am not sure what= =20 this does - can you please explain (in plain English). Did you only=20 have /dev/hdd mounted at the time of installation? What else is connected = to=20 the controller that hdd is connected to? > Now the system boots correctly but it takes ages (>10sec) to come from > "Grub loading Stage1.5" > to > "Grub loading, please wait..." > and then another 10sec or more to open the menu. That's rather a lot! I have certainly noticed that when /boot is installed= in=20 the last partition of relatively large disks it takes longer for grub to co= me=20 up, but I am getting ~4sec on a 250G SATA, not >20sec like yours. > I think I had this problem a long time ago but I can't remember the > solution. Can anyone help? I'd be interested to know if there is a solution. I had taken it as a give= n=20 that if grub is not at the start of a disk it takes longer to boot. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1725762.6x9aXcYhET Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkhtTQkACgkQ5Fp0QerLYPeYngCeI3FlVT5EJ7ghGN7i+OtjLtFb hkkAn2ydshZ7Iy4Lxy+bfLFPhi30drxy =1cmv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1725762.6x9aXcYhET-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list