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 1ORo52-000455-95 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:11:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 38433E0D2E; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:09:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from anny.lostinspace.de (anny.lostinspace.de [80.190.182.2]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D7CE0D2E for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:09:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server.idefix.lan (ppp-88-217-54-73.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.54.73]) (authenticated bits=0) by anny.lostinspace.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o5OF9k96019789 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:09:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from idefix@fechner.net) Received: from server.idefix.lan (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by server.idefix.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49C1975F3 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:09:46 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at server.idefix.lan Received: from server.idefix.lan ([127.0.0.1]) by server.idefix.lan (server.idefix.lan [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id o4cxqlBj-Sng for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:09:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dhcp-10-27-1-64.internal.epo.org (unknown [192.168.20.6]) by server.idefix.lan (Postfix) with ESMTPA id A542175E9 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:09:38 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C237531.8030402@fechner.net> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:09:37 +0200 From: Matthias Fechner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; de; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 takes very long to make config or install References: <4C235ED7.3010701@fechner.net> <201006241548.59518.wonko@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <201006241548.59518.wonko@wonkology.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.5 (anny.lostinspace.de [80.190.182.2]); Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:09:51 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on anny.lostinspace.de X-Archives-Salt: a8b14193-6619-4030-a274-2cda4e853feb X-Archives-Hash: da449aeff3f2ad8eb8bfe62861043df1 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