Re: Searching UUID on floppies

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 05:56:59PM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> >On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 03:06:30PM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> >>Robert Millan wrote:
> >>>Some of our commands use --no-floppy.  Also supported in GRUB Legacy (by 
> >>>'find'
> >>>or so, can't remember).  Perhaps it's better to use that for 
> >>>consistency?  It
> >>>is the floppy scan which everyone hates; for other devices I don't think
> >>>people will mind if GRUB spends a few ms on them.
> >>I don't know if it's relevant... but there is a situation that is maybe 
> >>similar when my MacBook boots up (before it even gets to GRUB), if 
> >>there's a CD in the drive, it wastes about 15 extra seconds spinning it 
> >>up to look at it, even if I'm not booting from CD.  So that might be a 
> >>sort of thing to watch out for, when making GRUB search?
> >
> >Does it happen before or after you get the "Welcome to GRUB!" message?
> 
> *That* happens even if I never enter grub at all -- so I guess you would 
> say "before".  GRUB doesn't have that problem for me as far as I know, 
> but the only things I have in my config are (hd0,x) -- no boot-from-CD 
> option, only the Linuxes on the disk that I have configured precisely 
> and numerically.

Definitely not a GRUB bug, then ;-)

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