Two weeks after upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 - which went smoothly - installed Grub 2. This took a while to settle down. The 800x600 choice was not a good one , although default and 1280x1024 worked well.
I have several linux versions installed and win too. The most recent Ubuntu , 9.10, is on the sata drive and win was on the pata drive. Pata has MBR, so similar setup to those above. Previous experience with booting problems because of early SATA mobo led me to experiment with swapping setting in device.map. This led to further issues as I had set win as default and it failed to load. It was vi for me again and a bit of a struggle to fight my way back. I am impressed by the ability of Grub 2 to find and build multiboot access ( as I renamed the config files to force it to work from scratch. It got a good list up and chose better settings than I sometimes did. It found five oses, some with several kernels. This reached a max of about thirty entries. It was about then that I googled about the delay and found bug reported. (That which should be done first !) The normal time for the disk thrashing is about two minutes before the Grub selection screen comes up. Seeing the suggestion above, I removed one, then both optical disk drives and replaced them. This did not favorably affect grub. As this is an aging rig, I thought it might be of interest. BTW, I have network a Celeron box with 10 g HD 133 mhz, 33 DMA, running Ubuntu 910. Installed from alt cd while it had 128mb mem. Took about 2 hours but installed sucessfully. It struggled to even open a task so added 256 mb and it is quite usable. Has just under 6 g partition with you know who next door, dual boot with Grub 2. Works great Look forward to early resolution of bug. It is going to be a great loader. Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) Gnome 2.28.1 (Ubuntu 2009-11-03) AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ MB Name A7N8X-E ASUSTeK Computer INC. 1002 MiB memory 2117 MiB swap ( overkill ) GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X 120 G PATA HD ATA ST3120026A 320 G SATA HD ATA ST3320620AS DVD ASUS DRW-0402P/D CD HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8160B cheers bob -- Current grub-pc takes several minutes to show menu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/420933 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
