Anyway like I said before the 1.x problem is only at boot time, later when your os loads your hdd is treated as a 2.0 device. So this is not a bug in Grub, it's just poor quality firmware... (the notebooks i tried were just 1 or 2 years old).
-- initrd image is read really slowly when booting from USB2.0 HDD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247960 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs