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On Tue October 4 2005 07.00, Pingveno wrote: |
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> I've noticed that GRUB takes a rather long time to start up on my |
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> computer. Granted, this is PII 550 Mhz. But it takes several seconds |
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> just for GRUB, not for anything to do with the kernel starting. The |
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> attached file is, obviously, my configuration file. BTW, the |
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> commented out entries are just old. |
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> |
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> Any optimization ideas out there? |
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title Linux 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 |
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root (hd0,3) |
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kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r8 init="/linuxrc" root=/dev/ram0 |
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real_root=/dev/hda1 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1280x1024-16@85 udev |
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initrd /initrd-2.6.11-gentoo-r8 |
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Grub reads the data into ram as soon as it reads the kernel or initrd |
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line. The time it seems to wait, is the time required to load this into |
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ram. Since grub uses (i assume) bios calls, reading with those is much |
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slower than disk access through the modern os drivers. |
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I'd check for the size of the initrd, and see if its compressed. It |
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seems to lack the .gz extension so it might not be. |
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greetings, |
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- Folken |
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