Do you have a slave HDD by any chance? It's known to cause problems. Anyway, try this grub edit tool http://www.supergrubdisk.org/
You'll have to burn it on a CD to edit your MBR.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Mayur Pawar samyak.mayur@gmail.com wrote:
hi,
I am having a dual boot machine with Ubuntu 7.04 and Windows XP. Yesterday i replaced Ubuntu 7.04 with Ubuntu 9.10 desktop edition and updated it. After updating i restarted my machine and the GRUB took unbelievably long time. It took almost 15 mins to load. It was not the same with 7.04. Also before i updated 9.10 the GRUB was fast enough. Now it takes a lot of time to kick in.
Any help on this?..as in why its taking so long and how can i work it around?..i dont intend to reinstall the OS..
Regards,
Mayur K. Pawar