On 21.07.2012 08:34, Jake Thomas wrote: > Hello folks! On a Dell Dimension 4400 (about a 10-year old computer), > when I boot into Grub2 rc~1, go into commandline, and enter "ls", it > takes a painfully long time to load the found hard drives and > partitions. Maybe 30 seconds? > > However, ls'ing a filesystem is quick. > > So, is this a bug in Grub, or a BIOS bug? I'm guessing a Grub2 bug, > but wanted to see what you guys think first. >
Most likely a BIOS bug: it probably reports some devices which don't exist (known as "ghost drives") and it takes time if you try to access them. > Jake > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > Bug-grub@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub > -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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