From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Searching UUID on floppies
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 21:27:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080531192749.GB25920@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4841A1B6.8050607@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org>
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 03:06:30PM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> >Some of our commands use --no-floppy. Also supported in GRUB Legacy (by
> >'find'
> >or so, can't remember). Perhaps it's better to use that for consistency?
> >It
> >is the floppy scan which everyone hates; for other devices I don't think
> >people will mind if GRUB spends a few ms on them.
>
> I don't know if it's relevant... but there is a situation that is maybe
> similar when my MacBook boots up (before it even gets to GRUB), if
> there's a CD in the drive, it wastes about 15 extra seconds spinning it
> up to look at it, even if I'm not booting from CD. So that might be a
> sort of thing to watch out for, when making GRUB search?
Does it happen before or after you get the "Welcome to GRUB!" message?
--
Robert Millan
<GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call!
<DRM> What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak?
(as seen on /.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-31 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-30 22:14 Searching UUID on floppies Pavel Roskin
2008-05-31 5:38 ` Bean
2008-05-31 5:43 ` Bean
2008-05-31 19:30 ` Robert Millan
2008-05-31 19:41 ` Bean
2008-05-31 9:53 ` Robert Millan
2008-05-31 19:06 ` Isaac Dupree
2008-05-31 19:27 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2008-05-31 21:56 ` Isaac Dupree
2008-05-31 22:10 ` Robert Millan
2008-06-01 6:19 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-06-01 10:22 ` Robert Millan
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