From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LhXEf-0006Vh-I6 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:49:13 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LhXEd-0006VA-Rd for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:49:11 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LhXEc-0006Ub-8F for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:49:11 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34402 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LhXEc-0006UW-4M for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:49:10 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:34654 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LhXEb-0001JN-N3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:49:09 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LhXEW-00089f-Nt for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:49:05 +0000 Received: from 65.111.170.175 ([65.111.170.175]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:49:04 +0000 Received: from grante by 65.111.170.175 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:49:04 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: grub-devel@gnu.org From: Grant Edwards Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:48:54 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <48f46e890903101858k73ca6673qc56dac25fad8d0d0@mail.gmail.com> <49B7D57D.3080701@gmail.com> <49B83321.9070006@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.111.170.175 User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) Sender: news X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: Re: Boot delay when using grub.efi on Mac Mini 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: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:49:12 -0000 On 2009-03-11, phcoder 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 , 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... :/ -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! The Korean War must at have been fun. visi.com