[nzlug] [OT] New MoBo takes moons to boot

[Glenn Enright]

I have a similar issue with grub being slow to start, on my Asrock MB
(P4i865?). Doesnt seem to affect anything else though. Anyone have
similar experiences using alternative boot managers? booting straight
into windows (ie no grub) works without aparent slowdown, so it would
seem to be peculiar to the software.

On 14/03/07, Dirk Pilat <pilatdirk at mac.com> wrote:
> Hiho.
>
> I'm sorry to be OT, but I am having a little problem with my MoBo (the
> weird looking,  strangely engineered and even wilder named Asrock 'K8
> Combo Z' ).
>
> It has an AMD 64 3500 sitting in it's 939 slot and has half a gig of Ram.
> All 4 drives (3 HD, one optical) are hooked up to the IDE controller, with
> the Sata controller disabled via Bios.
>
> Now the weird bit.
>
> The computer powers up, recognizes all 4 drives correctly and breezily,
> and then takes ca 30 seconds to come up with the Grub message and another
> 30 seconds to finally display the GRUB boot menu.
>
> Once the correct partition is chosen via grub, the rest of the boot
> process (Ubuntu or Windows) is just as quick as with my other mobos.
>
> Any ideas??
>
> Dirk
>
>
>
>
> --
> Dr Dirk Pilat
> Central Medical
> Oamaru
>
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