Re: [gentoo-user] Irritating ~5s pause whilst booting with grub

2018-10-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Mick. On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 18:21:08 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Monday, 22 October 2018 21:03:54 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo, > > This isn't a critical problem, but it's a little irritating. > > When my machine boots, it first displays the BIOS invitation to type F2, > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Irritating ~5s pause whilst booting with grub

2018-10-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 23 October 2018 22:08:43 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > Use a UEFI boot manager, which is much simpler than GRUB. If you use > systemd you already have one if you installed it with USE="gnuefi". > Otherwise use the standalone version, systemd-boot. Or you can use > refind, but that is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Irritating ~5s pause whilst booting with grub

2018-10-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 20:03:54 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I just need a program to boot the machine, that's all - I don't really > care what colours it uses, what fonts it uses, it only needs to read a > GPT partition table, and boot on utterly standard hardware. I > appreciate having a menu

Re: [gentoo-user] Irritating ~5s pause whilst booting with grub

2018-10-23 Thread Mick
On Monday, 22 October 2018 21:03:54 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo, > > This isn't a critical problem, but it's a little irritating. > > When my machine boots, it first displays the BIOS invitation to type F2, > then starts grub. Grub spends about 5 seconds with a blank screen, and >

[gentoo-user] Irritating ~5s pause whilst booting with grub

2018-10-22 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Gentoo, This isn't a critical problem, but it's a little irritating. When my machine boots, it first displays the BIOS invitation to type F2, then starts grub. Grub spends about 5 seconds with a blank screen, and an underline cursor dotting about randomly in the top left hand area of the