Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:46:02 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > (...) > >> As with many other people, I was experiencing a long delay (on the order >> of a minute) between the "Welcome to GRUB" message and the appearance of >> the boot menu when booting. > > Is that on Squeezy, Wheezy, other...?
It's been through several releases of Debian, ever since grub2 replaced grub (and I've been trying grub2 and reverting back to grub-legacy every few months up until this week, when I finally had time to sit down and fight with it for a couple of days). >> Other people had suggested making sure the floppy drive is turned off in >> the BIOS, and making sure your root file system is on the disk you're >> booting from. Neither of these made any difference in my case. >> >> What *did* work was setting the disk access mode to LBA in the BIOS (it >> had been set to Auto). I have no idea why this worked; on at least one >> other machine I have, the BIOS is set to Auto disk access mode, and >> there is no noticeable delay. > > I also started to experience a delay in GRUB2 (wheezy) but in another > stage: after getting the boot menu, there's a noticeable interval until > the system starts booting. > > Anyway, and back to the topic, I can't see a clear relation between the > BIOS IDE disk mode (LBA/Large/Auto/CHS...) and a delay to get the GRUB2 > menu because GRUB2 code is supposedly loaded earlier, but it could be > some sort of BIOS firmware bug :-? I don't see any relation at all (if I did, I would have tried changing it much earlier...). It seems to be when the grub2 code is loading... Firmware bug isn't unlikely, now that you point it out. So... it's a Biostar M7VIG 400 motherboard (yes, it's been faithfully playing sound cues for Las Cruces Community Theatre since 2007!) with Phoenix AwardBIOS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1b1uq3oqif....@pfeifferfamily.net