Re: Slow Menu

[Christoph Plattner]

I don't know if this is your problem, ... , but GRUB uses definitely
INT 10h routine (from the PC/VGA BIOS). There is no copying directly
to 0xb8000, or something like that.

Is there a problem to have a built up time of about 100ms ?

Bye
        Christoph P.


"Robert K." wrote:
> 
> Ah, I just learned that one can use a dumb terminal with grub!
> 
> But no, the slow menu that I see every morning is on my VGA and a Duron.
> But it takes some 1/10 secs to finish showing up. This is too slow for
> writing into VGA-memory. Whats the reason for beeing so slow?   - just
> interested.
> 
> Christoph Plattner schrieb:
> >
> > Do you men on the seriel line or in principal ?
> >
> > On the screen/keyboard the int 10h routines are used to set
> > characters and to colorate them.
> > On the serial line the ESC sequences are used (vt100).
> >
> > With friendly regards
> > Christoph P.
> >
> > "Robert K." wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > from what is it dependent that the grub menu builds itself so slow?
> > > Does grub use bios-routines inside the rom?
> > >
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