Bug#437265: grub: Grub loading very slow when using uswsusp

[Christophe Dongieux]

Package: grub
Version: 0.97-29
Severity: normal

Hello,

I'm using uswsusp (with the s2disk utility) to make hibernate my
computer.
With debian kernels > 2.6.18, when I switch on my computer after an
hibernation, Grub is very very slow to load.
"Please wait while grub is loading" is displayed for about 20~30
seconds, then the menu appears, I boot the kernel, and then again it
takes about 20 seconds to load the kernel.
During all this process, the disk activity led reamains lit on.
When I make a normal shutdown, there is no slowness problem.




I'm using ReiserFS partitions, here is the fdisk output :

laptop:/home/punky# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30000660480 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3647 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc6a2c6a2

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1          63      506016   82  Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/hda2   *          64        1279     9767520   83  Linux
/dev/hda3            1280        1522     1951897+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4            1523        3647    17069062+  83  Linux


hda2 is my root partition, hda3 my home, and hda4 is just a data
partition.



Do you have an idea ?
Thanks in advance.





-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.6.1-1        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20070716-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand

grub recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information