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From: Matthias Fechner <idefix@fechner.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 takes very long to make config or install
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:09:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C237531.8030402@fechner.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201006241548.59518.wonko@wonkology.org>

Hi,

Am 24.06.10 15:48, schrieb Alex Schuster:
> The old grub sometimes paused for around a minute because it searched for
> the floppy, the --no-floppy switch speeded this up.

hm, that is a really good point, I found in dmesg in in the logfile, 
tones of the following lines:
Jun 24 06:54:42 idefix-pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Jun 24 06:54:54 idefix-pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Jun 24 06:55:06 idefix-pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Jun 24 06:55:19 idefix-pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Jun 24 06:55:19 idefix-pc kernel: Buffer I/O error on device fd0, 
logical block 0

So it searches on the floppy and seems not to stop here after many hours 
passed.

Regarding the grub-mkconfig man page there is no option available to 
skip floppy check.
I will try at home if I can speed up the installation procedure with 
--no-floppy.

Thanks for the tip.

Bye,
Matthias

-- 
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to 
build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to 
produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." -- 
Rich Cook



  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-24 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-24 13:34 [gentoo-user] Grub2 takes very long to make config or install Matthias Fechner
2010-06-24 13:48 ` Alex Schuster
2010-06-24 15:09   ` Matthias Fechner [this message]
2010-06-29  5:42     ` Matthias Fechner

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