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bug #27900: GRUB 2 takes a long time to show menu when installed to different disk than /boot.

Submitter:  James Kilfiger <zeimusu>
Submitted:  Sun 01 Nov 2009 11:00:04 AM UTC
Votes: 451
 
Category:  Disk & Partition Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Software Error
Status:  Fixed Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  phcoder Originator Name: 
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  1.97
Release:  Reproducibility:  Every Time
Planned Release:  None

Thu 26 Nov 2009 09:04:38 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Fixed in experimental branch

Felix Zielcke <fzielcke>
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Sun 01 Nov 2009 11:00:04 AM UTC, original submission:  

Grub can take several minutes to display the menu if installed on a different physical drive from /boot. This particulaly affects the common set up in which a Windows OS is on sda, but /boot in in a partition on sdb, and grub is installed to the MBR of sda. It only affects systems that use UUID to identify partitions to grub.
Setting debug flags suggests that grub is aggressively searching windows partitions for /boot.

This issue has been reported on ubuntu:

 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/420933

and discussed on the mailing list:
 
 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-09/msg00313.html
 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-10/msg00519.html


James Kilfiger <zeimusu>

 

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