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Re: ls takes a painfully long time to load found drives and partitions o
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko |
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Re: ls takes a painfully long time to load found drives and partitions on Dell Dimension 4400 |
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Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:43:57 +0200 |
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On 21.07.2012 08:34, Jake Thomas wrote:
> Hello folks! On a Dell Dimension 4400 (about a 10-year old computer),
> when I boot into Grub2 rc~1, go into commandline, and enter "ls", it
> takes a painfully long time to load the found hard drives and
> partitions. Maybe 30 seconds?
>
> However, ls'ing a filesystem is quick.
>
> So, is this a bug in Grub, or a BIOS bug? I'm guessing a Grub2 bug,
> but wanted to see what you guys think first.
>
Most likely a BIOS bug: it probably reports some devices which don't
exist (known as "ghost drives") and it takes time if you try to access them.
> Jake
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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