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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 22:14:19 +0100
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On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 15:06:31 +0100
> Then I've installed grub into hda's MBR. Then something odd happened:
> Stage1.5 loads quiet fast but then Grub hangs once again of ~20sec
> with: "Grub loading, please wait ..."
>
> Since that is the moment when Grub accesses /dev/hdd for the first
> time, I think it could really be a problem with the hard disk, however,
> one that doesn't affect anything else. Maybe an automatic SMART
> self-test at boot-up? I'll investigate and as a workaround I'll get an
> SD-card or cheap USB-stick for Grub, since - unfortunately - the kernel
> is too big to fit on a floppy.
I know what I would have done - right from the start. Not used grub-instal=
l. =20
Not installed it in every single disk. Not installed it in any partition,=
=20
unless I intended to chainload separately the GRUB bootloader of the said=20
partition. Now, I know that this doesn't help and won't resolve your issue=
,=20
but perhaps next time . . .
I am not sure how GRUB goes about probing and reading boot sectors at boot=
=20
time. As I understand it at the time it is installed in an MBR, the positi=
on=20
of the grub fs is also written in there right after the boot code. At boot=
=20
time the boot code (stage1) jumps to the block device where grub's root fs =
is=20
stored to read and execute stage1.5 which can read the /boot device fs and=
=20
then read the stage2 files, which finally go and load the main OS kernel=20
image. Assuming this is correct, then what you have installed in the MBR o=
f=20
hdb and hdd and the partition boot sector of hdd1 is irrelevant and it=20
*should not* make grub take so long.
That's the reason why I said something hardware-wise may be amiss, although=
I=20
can see that your checks and reasoning are sound.
=2D-=20
Regards,
Mick
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