long pause before GRUB appears on ASUS G2S-B2

[Claude Jones]

On Tue April 8 2008, Tim wrote:
> That sounds rather like it's looking for other drives (e.g. you've got
> multiple ports, it's waiting for responses from all them, for whether
> they've got a drive or not), or taking a while to find the first drive
> (does your drive take a while to spin up?).

Good catch. This laptop has an eSata port and I have a drive attached to it. I 
just shut down and turned that drive off  then rebooted. This time there was 
no delay. I wonder why it takes it 30 seconds to determine that the external 
is not the boot drive....in BIOS settings, I have delineated the internal 
SATA drive as the boot drive, so, it's still a bit of a mystery. But, at 
least I know the cause. 

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Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA