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thinkpad screen to Grub takes 90 seconds. How to fix it?
Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 1:41 pm
by 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
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Re: thinkpad screen to Grub takes 90 seconds. How to fix it?
Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 1:45 pm
by Harryc
Moved to Linux...
Re: thinkpad screen to Grub takes 90 seconds. How to fix it?
Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 3:31 pm
by 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?
Re: thinkpad screen to Grub takes 90 seconds. How to fix it?
Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 5:51 pm
by 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.
Re: thinkpad screen to Grub takes 90 seconds. How to fix it?
Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 11:42 pm
by newboyo
solved!!!
I changed the boot option to diagnostic from quick. it booted quickly. Then amended the boot option back to quick - problem solved.
Re: thinkpad screen to Grub takes 90 seconds. How to fix it?
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:59 am
by jaspen-meyer
if you've got an i5, use a 64-bit desktop.
will be faster.
Re: thinkpad screen to Grub takes 90 seconds. How to fix it?
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 12:22 pm
by ThinkRob
jaspen-meyer wrote: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.)
Re: thinkpad screen to Grub takes 90 seconds. How to fix it?
Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 2:22 pm
by 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.
Re: thinkpad screen to Grub takes 90 seconds. How to fix it?
Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 9:35 pm
by ThinkRob
MrPeter1985 wrote: 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.