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Re: Searching UUID on floppies
From: |
Robert Millan |
Subject: |
Re: Searching UUID on floppies |
Date: |
Sun, 1 Jun 2008 00:10:21 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 05:56:59PM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> >On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 03:06:30PM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> >>Robert Millan wrote:
> >>>Some of our commands use --no-floppy. Also supported in GRUB Legacy (by
> >>>'find'
> >>>or so, can't remember). Perhaps it's better to use that for
> >>>consistency? It
> >>>is the floppy scan which everyone hates; for other devices I don't think
> >>>people will mind if GRUB spends a few ms on them.
> >>I don't know if it's relevant... but there is a situation that is maybe
> >>similar when my MacBook boots up (before it even gets to GRUB), if
> >>there's a CD in the drive, it wastes about 15 extra seconds spinning it
> >>up to look at it, even if I'm not booting from CD. So that might be a
> >>sort of thing to watch out for, when making GRUB search?
> >
> >Does it happen before or after you get the "Welcome to GRUB!" message?
>
> *That* happens even if I never enter grub at all -- so I guess you would
> say "before". GRUB doesn't have that problem for me as far as I know,
> but the only things I have in my config are (hd0,x) -- no boot-from-CD
> option, only the Linuxes on the disk that I have configured precisely
> and numerically.
Definitely not a GRUB bug, then ;-)
--
Robert Millan
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