First: I don't know if it was the same for others, but your email came as an attachment. I have not had that before on this list so I think it may be your mail. Please correct me if I am wrong.
> From: Thomas H. George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 12:02 PM > Subject: OT: BIOS Problem > Very slow bootup while grub tries repeatedly to get responses > from a dead ide slave drive. If the ide slave drive is disconnected > bios apparently spends a long time searching for ide drives and grub > loads very slowly but, once loaded, boots the system quickly. I have had similar issues. In one case, I was able to simply disable the IDE connection within the BIOS. That BIOS had quite a few non-standard features, and being able to disable certain devices, like the IDE, was a bonus and not likely to be standard. I do not know your motherboard. I also one tried to migrate a Debian install off of a IDE drive and onto a SATA drive (all partitions including grub) and I found it to be really slow. I tried updating grub and a few tricks I found on this group, but I was never able to get it to boot right. The grub prompt came up pretty quick but it took about ~5 minutes to properly load the Linux kernel and start booting. Since everything I had was backed up, I just wiped the system and started over. Worked fine after that. The best we could figure was I had missed some link or pointer and it wasn't happy that it had left IDE. Hope this helps! Have fun! ~S~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]