On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:48:38 +0200
>
> Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've
> > installed grub with
> > for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done
> >
> > Now the system boots correctly but it takes ages (>10sec) to come from
> > "Grub loading Stage1.5"
> > to
> > "Grub loading, please wait..."
> > and then another 10sec or more to open the menu.
> >
> > I think I had this problem a long time ago but I can't remember the
> > solution. Can anyone help?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Florian Philipp
>
> By the way: I noticed that the HDD-LED is constantly on while Grub is
> loading.As far as I can understand the problem arises because you have installed grub everywhere. When your BIOS kicks in it goes to the first disk's MBR, reads the GRUB boot code, which starts probing each and every device where a GRUB file system exists. Perhaps it also checks each MBR? Eventually it arrives at /dev/hdd and GRUB loads up its boot menu. You can tweak the /boot/grub/device.map file to change the order of the devices and bring up /dev/hdd sooner. Alternatively and probably easier would be to change the boot order of your drives in your BIOS menu. Since you have installed GRUB in each drive's MBR you should be able to boot straight off your hdd drive. HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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