Re: Boot delay when using grub.efi on Mac Mini

[Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>]

On 2009-03-11, phcoder <phcoder@gmail.com> wrote:

> Looks like for some reason your bless command tries to announce efi 
> partition by uuid. I'm not sure where this uuid comes from, perhaps it's 
> uuid from gpt but I would suspect that EFI has troubles finding your 
> partition because of this try:
> 1) you could bless manually by writing corresponding data to nvram
> 2) you could try on HFS+

I may try using bless --device to see if that works any
differently.

What seems particular weird to me is that after doing 15 tries
of <something>, the firmware does find grub.efi and starts it
just fine.

It's like it _finds_ it, but isn't particularly happy about it.
So, it goes off an tries something else 15 times.  When that
doesn't work, it goes ahead and boots grub.efi.

I've checked, and it's not sending any network packets during
that 30 seconds.  Something via the network is the only thing I
can think of that would be worth re-trying.  I can't figure out
what it might be trying that a) is failing, and b) somebody
thought might succeed if it was just re-tried another 14 times
over a period of 30 seconds.

If a particular sector on a disk or a file doesn't contain what
you're looking for, reading it 14 more times isn't going to
help... :/

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