Bug#550015: [grub-pc] 4 minute delay between "Welcome to Grub!" and the menu

Fri Aug 27 18:27:52 UTC 2010

I have a 4 minute delay between the Grub Welcome message and the menu.
After this, the system starts up very smoothly.
I have a 1 TB RAID 1 configuration, with GPT and ext4 filesystems. I had
the same problem when using ext3.

Attatched are my dmesg, grub-default, grub.cfg, lspci, messages and
parted output.
This is the only system that shows this behaviour: I installed the same
distribution this week on three other systems, without this problem.
I tried edd=off on the kernel command line, but obviously, this had no
effect on the Grub menu startup.

Does anybody know if this is a configuration issue?

If you need more logfiles or additional information, please email me.

Thank you all in advance!

Cheers,
Maarten

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.98+20100804-2

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--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686

Debian Release: squeeze/sid
500 testing security.debian.org
500 testing ftp.nl.debian.org
500 testing ftp.de.debian.org
500 testing ftp.be.debian.org

--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
==========================================-+-====================
libc6 (>= 2.3) | 2.11.2-2
libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.36) | 2:1.02.48-3
debconf (>= 0.5) | 1.5.35
OR debconf-2.0 |
grub-common (= 1.98+20100804-2) | 1.98+20100804-2
ucf | 3.0025

Package's Recommends field is empty.

Suggests (Version) | Installed
===========================-+-===========
desktop-base (>= 4.0.6) |

--- Output from package bug script ---

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/disk/by-uuid/530e86fd-8d10-4244-9510-b04806adb415 / ext4
rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/md1 /home ext4 rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST31000528AS_9VP516MR
(hd1) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST31000528AS_9VP3WS8L
(hd2) /dev/disk/by-id/usb-USB_2.0_Flash_Drive_301748008ABA7701-0:0
*********************** END /boot/grub/device.map

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}"
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi

function savedefault {
if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
saved_entry="${chosen}"
save_env saved_entry
fi
}

function load_video {
insmod vbe
insmod vga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
}

insmod raid
insmod mdraid
insmod part_gpt
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
set root='(md/0)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 530e86fd-8d10-4244-9510-b04806adb415
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=640x480
load_video
insmod gfxterm
fi
terminal_output gfxterm
insmod raid
insmod mdraid
insmod part_gpt
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
set root='(md/0)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 530e86fd-8d10-4244-9510-b04806adb415
set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale
set lang=en
insmod gettext
set timeout=5
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-686' --class debian
--class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod raid
insmod mdraid
insmod part_gpt
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
set root='(md/0)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 530e86fd-8d10-4244-9510-b04806adb415
echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.32-5-686 ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
root=UUID=530e86fd-8d10-4244-9510-b04806adb415 ro edd=off quiet
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686
}
menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (recovery mode)'
--class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod raid
insmod mdraid
insmod part_gpt
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
set root='(md/0)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 530e86fd-8d10-4244-9510-b04806adb415
echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.32-5-686 ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
root=UUID=530e86fd-8d10-4244-9510-b04806adb415 ro single edd=off
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
if [ -f $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then
source $prefix/custom.cfg;
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
*********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg

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