From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.33) id 1BYlyF-0006BS-RK for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:21:23 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BYlyE-0006Ad-MR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:21:22 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BYlyC-00068T-HK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:21:21 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BYlyC-00068C-CM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:21:20 -0400 Received: from [213.94.219.177] (helo=corvil.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1BYlxH-00086m-6w for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:20:23 -0400 Received: from draigBrady.com (pixelbeat.local.corvil.com [172.18.1.170]) by corvil.com (8.12.9/8.12.5) with ESMTP id i5BDKGOC022411 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:20:17 +0100 (IST) (envelope-from P@draigBrady.com) Message-ID: <40C9B190.6020500@draigBrady.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:20:16 +0100 From: P@draigBrady.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040124 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <600B91D5E4B8D211A58C00902724252C01BC06BB@piramida.hermes.si> In-Reply-To: <600B91D5E4B8D211A58C00902724252C01BC06BB@piramida.hermes.si> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by corvil.com id i5BDKGOC022411 Subject: Re: Grub 1 troubleshooting, linux boot delayed problem X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:21:23 -0000 David Balazic wrote: > Hi! >=20 > I found no other place, so I'll ask here. >=20 > I have a problem booting linux with grub ( v 0.9.something ). >=20 > I use the commands ( in the grub shell that boots from my HD ): > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.xxx ro root=3Ddev/hda2 > initrd /initrd-2.xxx > boot >=20 > After entering the "boot" command, the screen is cleared and then nothi= ng > happens for 93 seconds. > After that linux boot normally grub spends ages probing the actual physical devices to use if you don't specify a device map. Try doing this first: device (hd0) /dev/hda You may also have to specify a geometry? P=E1draig.