[Bug 420933] Re: Current grub-pc takes several minutes to show menu

[mikeXYZ]

A user shouldn't have to change the boot order to get the new-and-
improved GRUB to work reasonably well.

Many users have Windows on a first-in-BIOS HDD "sda" and boot from that
HDD by installing GRUB to its MBR, in preference to maintaining their
Windows on a non-first HDD (requiring devicemap and being subject to
various maintenance issues, especially as Windows receives updates).  I
do agree with posters above now that this is a show stopper.  Not only
is the delay between POST and boot menu unacceptably long (70 s in my
case, with just two standard SATA disks), but there also may be a 2-6
second delay after selecting a menuentry from the menu.  As GRUB
improves along certain useful dimensions (e.g., loopback, GPT support,
os-prober, etc.), many other new features will never be used by most
users of GRUB; so let's not ask them to live with a regression of basic
performance & features.  (BTW, I'm a GRUB lover, too, and an active how-
to writer these past several years, aka Qqmike at kubuntuforums).

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Current grub-pc takes several minutes to show menu
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