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

[Glenn Enright]

> 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.

Actually that did help speed it up a bit, but I suspect that there is
some non-standard aspect to the sata interface on this MB that forces
grub to take a secondary (slower) path? Or maybee its just slow :p. No
idea, but definitely faster than it was. Thanks for the tip!