Re: [tlug] In the beginning there is GRUB... or is there another?

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

> In the motherboard loading phase, it does show a scan for USB hard 
> drives. This takes about 5 seconds, and it verbosely shows me the 
> progress. This happens right before the mysterious 30 second delay.

One idea is to try booting from a linux CD (making sure bios is still
set to boot from CD first). If you still get the delay it is bios-side;
if you don't it is something about the linux on your hard disk.

Darren



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