Slow Grub on new mobo Q

[Robin Laing]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Kam Leo wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> The one that's been sitting in updates for 2-3 months, scared to install it 
> because my drive mapping was fubar on that biostar mobo with its outboard 
> sata controller.  Now on this asus, it seems like hd0,0 is indeed /dev/sda1, 
> aka /boot in the label.  Anyway, it worked.
> 

I built a new computer this past spring using an ASUS MB and I had all 
kinds of issues.  I checked and found that the MB didn't have the latest 
BIOS.  In fact it was a few versions out of date.

Check the ASUS site for BIOS updates and see if that fixes this issue. 
It fixed almost all my issues.  I am running F8.


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Robin Laing