Slow Grub on new mobo Q

[Kam Leo]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I built a new box yesterday, and one of the things I'm seeing is about a 10
> second lag between the bios clearing the screen after doing its thing, and
> the "Loading Grub stage 2", which stays on screen for several seconds, then
> its blanked for another 10 secs or so, and finally the grub 'choice' menu
> comes up.
>
> This is with the new grub.  One thing I had done on the previous mobo was to
> have just one entry in /boot/grub/devices, but I see that has been reset by
> something from /dev/sdb to /dev/sda, presumably by upgrading grub this
> morning.
>
> The bios is set to boot from the first ide, which is (hd0,0) I believe.
>
> What can I post that might be of interest?, just ask.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene

What new grub? As far as I am aware there has been no update to grub.