From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1K2ZHd-00033t-79 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 May 2008 18:10:41 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K2ZHc-00032v-4p for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 May 2008 18:10:40 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K2ZHX-0002yY-Lg for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 May 2008 18:10:39 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53802 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K2ZHX-0002yJ-Fo for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 May 2008 18:10:35 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:53131) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K2ZHX-0004Sq-6E for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 May 2008 18:10:35 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K2ZGv-0001U3-4x for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:09:57 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K2ZHJ-0005P3-FE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:10:21 +0200 Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 00:10:21 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080531221021.GA20742@thorin> References: <1212185676.18496.9.camel@dv> <20080531095311.GE6619@thorin> <4841A1B6.8050607@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> <20080531192749.GB25920@thorin> <4841C9AB.9030702@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4841C9AB.9030702@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Searching UUID on floppies X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 22:10:40 -0000 On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 05:56:59PM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > >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? > > *That* happens even if I never enter grub at all -- so I guess you would > say "before". GRUB doesn't have that problem for me as far as I know, > but the only things I have in my config are (hd0,x) -- no boot-from-CD > option, only the Linuxes on the disk that I have configured precisely > and numerically. Definitely not a GRUB bug, then ;-) -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)