Booting delay?

pmam · Veteran Joined: 30 Dec 2013 Posts: 1145

Hi,

I have a delay issue during booting in one machine:
After BIOS checking there is a line: 'Verify DMI Pool Data',
and then 'Grab Loading' and right immediate there is very fast error message that I can not catch in eyes -
The above process takes sometime, while in other machine after the BIOS checking it is very fast until the booting menu.
But here, there is an error that causing to extra delay- it is not a big problem but who knows -
Maybe some day the Grab process will go out of the machine and revenge for all those errors.... :wink:

Where is the log file keeping the errors of this booting stage, before getting to the OS booting menu?
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i92guboj · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 12:50 pm Post subject: Re: Booting delay?

pmam · Veteran Joined: 30 Dec 2013 Posts: 1145

i92guboj,

i92guboj · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 1:49 pm Post subject:

The dmesg command will give you all that's been logged since you booted your computer. So, please, paste that (or use a pastebin if it's too large).

I don't know if that will be of use though. There's a limit to what dmesg can show though. The earliest stage of the kernel output can't be logged. Of course, logs can't go back to the stage before the kernel is loaded so whatever grub says is out of the log as well

pmam · Veteran Joined: 30 Dec 2013 Posts: 1145

Here is my dmesg: http://pastebin.com/ruF3KRnD
Hope it can tell something...
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creaker · l33t Joined: 14 Jul 2012 Posts: 651

I have such a delay too on two of four machines. Error that indicated by Grub isn't a causer of delay. I think this delay depends on your hardware. I found accidentally that this delay may be reduced or skipped at all by pressing some keyboard buttons. Cursor buttons, Enter, backspace, Escape and some others. Does your keyboard pressing reduce the delay?

Added:
Do you have this delay when booting from LiveUSB? I have it. Regardless what a bootloader in use - Grub, Lilo, syslinux or even Windows bootloader.

i92guboj · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 3:51 pm Post subject:

That log seems normal. And there"s no delay in there either. So, whatever that's happening must be happening at grub stage and it's hard to know what is it without seeing the actual errors.

pmam · Veteran Joined: 30 Dec 2013 Posts: 1145

creaker,

I had a long running of emerge world on this machine - so now after has finished - I can re-check the situation...

i92guboj · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 8:29 am Post subject:

I don't have an "en.mo" file either under /boot/grub/locale/, I think I can see the same error but it's hard to notice, and it's definitely not something to worry about since "en" will be the default embedded locale anyway. In any case, from what you said in your last post, that delay occurs *before* grubs gets into scene, so there's nothing we can do to fix it. I think it's hardware related, and it's not related to the grub error.

By the way, you can advance or go back frame by frame using the dot and comma keys in mplayer (and by extension in mplayer2 and mpv), if my memory serves correctly.

left/right skip 1 sec
up/down skip 10 secs
pag up/pag down skips 1 min
./, skip one frame