jimmy: you might have a different problem because the delay that my original bug report is describing happens after grub, not before it.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247960 Title: Grub long sequential reads are extremely slow from USB2.0 HDD/FLASH drives Status in GRand Unified Bootloader: Confirmed Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Grub long sequential reads are extremely slow from USB2.0 HDD/FLASH drives. Reading vmlinuz(4.6MB) + initrd(18MB) takes several minutes (~0.5Mb/s) Issues affects all grub versions until current in Natty (1.99~rc1-13ubuntu1). But might be related to bad BIOS implementations. Affected chipsets: Intel 915 (todo) Intel 965 (82801G) Nvidia MCP79 Not-Affected chipsets: Intel 965 (82801H) Original description: I'm using Hardy. Nothing happens for 50 seconds during bootup. There is only a blinking cursor on the screen after the grub menu. After the 50 seconds the splash screen appears. This problem only occurs on cold start, it doesn't happen when I just reboot. I have an HP nw8440 laptop. I'm attaching my dmesg and lspci -vv output. Old Update: I've found out that initrd is read really slowly and this is causing the long delay during boot. Please read comment #27: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/247960/comments/27 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/grub/+bug/247960/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
