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
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
If that doesn't work, try LILO instead of grub
http://freshmeat.net/projects/lilo/
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Rahul Jayaraman rahul@moqshh.com wrote:
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.comwrote:
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
-- Best Regards, Rahul Jayaraman +91 9819619320
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 09:55:31 Rahul Jayaraman wrote:
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.
Err you dont edit the MBR.But you can install grub from the disk.
But ubuntu 9.10 uses grub2, which is utterly different than grub now known as grub legacy.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Mayur Pawar
samyak.mayur@gmail.com wrote:
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..
You wont have to reinstall the os. apt-get install grub should do the job WARNING: screwing around with bootloaders is always very dangerous. We wish you a happy and safe journey.
Check this too. http://www.linux.com/community/blogs/changing-the-default-boot-with-ubuntu-9...
@jtd.. because playing around with MBR is dangerous? or it won't help at all?
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:09 PM, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 09:55:31 Rahul Jayaraman wrote:
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.
Err you dont edit the MBR.But you can install grub from the disk.
But ubuntu 9.10 uses grub2, which is utterly different than grub now known as grub legacy.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Mayur Pawar
samyak.mayur@gmail.com wrote:
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..
You wont have to reinstall the os. apt-get install grub should do the job WARNING: screwing around with bootloaders is always very dangerous. We wish you a happy and safe journey.
Check this too.
http://www.linux.com/community/blogs/changing-the-default-boot-with-ubuntu-9...
-- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 15:47:12 Rahul Jayaraman wrote:
@jtd.. because playing around with MBR is dangerous? or it won't help at all?
Supergrub uses grub legacy and ubuntu 9.10 uses grub2 by default. both are totally incompatabile. Overwriting the grub2 MBR with grub legacy will really bork things.
The newer version of supergrub works on grub2 i believe On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:48 PM, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 15:47:12 Rahul Jayaraman wrote:
@jtd.. because playing around with MBR is dangerous? or it won't help at all?
Supergrub uses grub legacy and ubuntu 9.10 uses grub2 by default. both are totally incompatabile. Overwriting the grub2 MBR with grub legacy will really bork things.
-- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 22:25:29 Rahul Jayaraman wrote:
The newer version of supergrub works on grub2 i believe
1.21 or later
grub2 also has a rescue cd creation option grub-mkrescue abc.iso will create an iso, abc.iso that will help in booting a system with messed up bootloader. Just burn abc.iso and boot with that.
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