thinkpad screen to Grub takes 90 seconds. How to fix it?

[newboyo]

Hi,

I dual boot win 7 and Lucid 32 bit.

Starting this morning, loading of Grub takes exactly 90 seconds. There are no system issues/no bios changes etc. Wonder if you could help.

Thanks

New

[Harryc]

Moved to Linux...

[Superego]

A little more info would help:

What's your hardware setup?
What is your partitioning scheme?
Have you tried reinstalling GRUB?
Have you recently used hibernation?

[newboyo]

Sure thing -

t410, core i5, 4 GB ram, 320 GB HDD.

sda 1 - recovery partition
sda 2 - win 7
sda 6 has /
sda 7 is ~
sda 5 is swap.

use lucid 10.04 LTS, 32 bit with an encrypted ~.

I did do a sudo update Grub2, which seemed to go off well.

don't really use hibernation - though the lappy may have hibernated, when i was away.

Thanks vm for looking at my problem.

also, going into bios also takes 90 seconds after when i press the thinkvantage button. exiting bios into reboot takes another 90 seconds after i hit exit bios.

[newboyo]

solved!!!

I changed the boot option to diagnostic from quick. it booted quickly. Then amended the boot option back to quick - problem solved.

[jaspen-meyer]

if you've got an i5, use a 64-bit desktop.

will be faster.

[ThinkRob]

if you've got an i5, use a 64-bit desktop.

will be faster.

Actually there probably won't be a noticeable performance difference unless you've got a massive amount of RAM and are running a workload that's memory constrained (or one that benefits from the additional registers and/or longer word size.)

[MrPeter1985]

From my experience with Linux, 64bit has always ran smoother. I'm guessing 64bit is more stable on a 64bit chip rather then running 32bit on a 64bit chip. My 2 cents.

[ThinkRob]

I'm guessing 64bit is more stable on a 64bit chip rather then running 32bit on a 64bit chip. My 2 cents.

Placebo. There is no technical reason that this would be the case.

The only real reason to use a 64-bit OS is if you need the extra registers or the extra address space. If you've got <= 4GB of RAM and you don't know what a register is, then you will gain virtually nothing from running a 64-bit distro.