Slow Grub on new mobo Q
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu Oct 2 14:51:51 UTC 2008
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 In fact it was a few versions out of date.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.
--
Robin Laing
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