Grub-Menu takes ~30s to appear :/

[Clemens Eisserer]

Hi,

> IIRC, on older notebooks, there was a default time delay in the boot process (setting in BIOS, I think) that allowed the hard drive time to spin up to full speed before being accessed.
>
> I have a 10 year old IBM Thinkpad 240X (500MHz P4, dual boot W2k & Debian Etch), and it does the same thing whether it's running off the battery or AC.  After grub loads, boot proceeds normally.
>
> This may not be your problem, but it should be examined in any case.

I am quite sure this is not the case, as grub-loading was fast before
updating to Fedora-11.

I'll post menu.lst soon, but I doubt it will give any useful insights :/

Thanks, Clemens