Your message dated Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:02:03 +0000 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#477083: fixed in grub2 1.96+20080704-1 has caused the Debian Bug report #477083, regarding grub-pc: Is excruciatingly slow when compared to grub (legacy) to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20080413-1 Severity: important I have tried grub-pc a few times during my installation tests and noticed that it is really significantly slower than grub "legacy". This may or may not be very visible on real hardware, but in Virtualbox (running on a fast, modern host system) the difference is 30 seconds. With grub I am looking at the grub menu 4 seconds after I start the virtual machine (which includes ~2 seconds of allowing to select a different boot medium by the VM's "bios"). With grub-pc this is 34 (!) seconds. You can clearly see the different stages too, even of the menu being built up (numbers are seconds: 0- 3: start virtual machine and BIOS stuff 3 : "Welcome to GRUB!" is displayed 3-28: occasional disk activity, but display remains the same 28 : "GNU GRUB version 1.96" is displayed 30-32: slooowly the border is built up from top to bottom and the help text below is displayed 32-33: no visible action 33-34: menu items are shown and the blue background is filled in Note that there's also #476479 ("takes 10 seconds to get to the menu") which is currently assigned to grub-common. I'm willing to bet that report is about grub-pc too, and not about grub "legacy". Also, scrolling through the menu is quite slow and there's "flashing" of the (previously highlighted) menu item line while scrolling. This is different from the flashing mentioned in #437275. With grub "legacy", the menu appears almost instantaneously and the scrolling is fast and smooth. >From my PoV as one of the core D-I developers this is a major usability issue which would need to be resolved before I personally would consider allowing grub-installer to install grub-pc by default. This testing was done on an em64t dual core 3.2MHz host running Debian amd64/unstable. Virtualbox VM had cleanly installed i386/lenny (which also means that this should be trivial to reproduce ;-). Cheers, FJP
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--- Begin Message ---Source: grub2 Source-Version: 1.96+20080704-1 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of grub2, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: grub-common_1.96+20080704-1_amd64.deb to pool/main/g/grub2/grub-common_1.96+20080704-1_amd64.deb grub-efi_1.96+20080704-1_amd64.deb to pool/main/g/grub2/grub-efi_1.96+20080704-1_amd64.deb grub-ieee1275_1.96+20080704-1_amd64.deb to pool/main/g/grub2/grub-ieee1275_1.96+20080704-1_amd64.deb grub-linuxbios_1.96+20080704-1_amd64.deb to pool/main/g/grub2/grub-linuxbios_1.96+20080704-1_amd64.deb grub-pc_1.96+20080704-1_amd64.deb to pool/main/g/grub2/grub-pc_1.96+20080704-1_amd64.deb grub-rescue-pc_1.96+20080704-1_amd64.deb to pool/main/g/grub2/grub-rescue-pc_1.96+20080704-1_amd64.deb grub2_1.96+20080704-1.diff.gz to pool/main/g/grub2/grub2_1.96+20080704-1.diff.gz grub2_1.96+20080704-1.dsc to pool/main/g/grub2/grub2_1.96+20080704-1.dsc grub2_1.96+20080704-1_amd64.deb to pool/main/g/grub2/grub2_1.96+20080704-1_amd64.deb grub2_1.96+20080704.orig.tar.gz to pool/main/g/grub2/grub2_1.96+20080704.orig.tar.gz A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated grub2 package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 21:39:07 +0200 Source: grub2 Binary: grub2 grub-of grub-common grub-pc grub-rescue-pc grub-linuxbios grub-efi grub-ieee1275 Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.96+20080704-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: grub-common - GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (common files) grub-efi - GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (EFI version) grub-ieee1275 - GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (Open Firmware version) grub-linuxbios - GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (LinuxBIOS version) grub-of - GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 [dummy] grub-pc - GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS version) grub-rescue-pc - GRUB bootable rescue images, version 2 (PC/BIOS version) grub2 - GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (dummy package) Closes: 464086 476479 477083 488375 489133 Changes: grub2 (1.96+20080704-1) unstable; urgency=high . * New SVN snapshot. * default/grub: Add commented example to disable graphical terminal. * Use substvars to support linking with liblzo1. * Bring 03_disable_floppies.diff to pre-r805 state. (Closes: #488375) * patches/02_old_linux_version_comparison.diff: New patch. Steal version comparison code from GRUB Legacy's update-grub. (Closes: #464086, #489133) * patches/00_speed_up_font_load.diff: New patch. Generate font files with only the needed characters. 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