I don't know if this is your problem, ... , but GRUB uses definitely INT 10h routine (from the PC/VGA BIOS). There is no copying directly to 0xb8000, or something like that.
Is there a problem to have a built up time of about 100ms ? Bye Christoph P. "Robert K." wrote: > > Ah, I just learned that one can use a dumb terminal with grub! > > But no, the slow menu that I see every morning is on my VGA and a Duron. > But it takes some 1/10 secs to finish showing up. This is too slow for > writing into VGA-memory. Whats the reason for beeing so slow? - just > interested. > > Christoph Plattner schrieb: > > > > Do you men on the seriel line or in principal ? > > > > On the screen/keyboard the int 10h routines are used to set > > characters and to colorate them. > > On the serial line the ESC sequences are used (vt100). > > > > With friendly regards > > Christoph P. > > > > "Robert K." wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > from what is it dependent that the grub menu builds itself so slow? > > > Does grub use bios-routines inside the rom? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Bug-grub mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > private: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > company: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +--------V--------+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | A L C A T E L | ----------------------------- +-----------------+ Phone: +43 1 27722 3706 T A S Fax: +43 1 27722 3955 _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub