Antoine wrote: >Hi, >I installed a fresh ~x86 system on the wife's laptop, it runs fine >(pretty much only thing that would install) and there is only one >annoying problem - after grub gets told to boot linux (either through >timeout or hitting enter) it takes *ages* (~45 seconds) for the dots to >run and finally get onto the kernel. Does anyone know why this might be? >Should I just go with what I know and install lilo? >I went with genkernel (and the livedisk hardware profile) to avoid >having to find out all the hardware - is this the problem? >Cheers >Antoine > >
Where, precisely, does this delay occur? Is it after the message? "Uncompressing Linux..." If so, then changing boot loaders will almost certainly not help, because by this point the entire compressed kernel image has already been loaded into memory by grub and grub has jumped to the kernel. The kernel is decompressing itself and outputing the dots... If it is taking 45 seconds to get to that message though, then switching to lilo (or the most recent version of grub) could help. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
