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

[Volker Kuhlmann]

> 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.

> 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.

At that point, no filesystem driver is available to grub, so grub
implements its own minmalistic one (lilo doesn't even try, which is why
you need to reinstall it each time your kernel changes). If there's a
problem with the filesystem this can take aaages. Run an fsck and see if
that fixes it.

Volker

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