Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

[Mick]

On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:48:38 +0200
>
> Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> 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