From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ORmoi-0002SP-JX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:50:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E18D5E07BB; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:49:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8CA9E07BB for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:49:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.localnet (p4FF04ABC.dip.t-dialin.net [79.240.74.188]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 26F244A800C for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:49:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 takes very long to make config or install Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:48:54 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.3 (Linux/2.6.33-tuxonice-r2; KDE/4.4.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <4C235ED7.3010701@fechner.net> In-Reply-To: <4C235ED7.3010701@fechner.net> 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: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201006241548.59518.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: 557af3ea-d19e-44ee-8fa9-f920c7477f4a X-Archives-Hash: 8d9454ae51a883c56c7e41ab6d9cf50f Matthias Fechner writes: > I followed now the wiki page: > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 Down again. > At the step to create the config file with: > grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > and install grub2 with: > grub-install /dev/sda > > it needs several hours to complete each of the commands. Is this > normal? No. Sorry, I have no idea why this happens. I used grub only once, but at least I know it it did not take hours, it was about 1-2 seconds, or maybe even less, I did not stop the time :) Is there something in syslog when you run this, or are the -v arguments that would make the process more verbose? The old grub sometimes paused for around a minute because it searched for the floppy, the --no-floppy switch speeded this up. Wonko