[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Bug? Extremely slow loading of initrd if it has more than 4 extents on e
|
From: |
Joschi Brauchle |
|
Subject: |
Bug? Extremely slow loading of initrd if it has more than 4 extents on ext2 |
|
Date: |
Thu, 16 May 2013 13:57:37 +0200 |
|
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.5 |
Hello everyone,
I have a problem with booting openSUSE 12.3 from an ext2 filesystem
using GRUB 0.97 as follows:
If the initrd file uses **more than 4** extents on the ext2 filesystem,
loading it takes "forever" on a recent Core2Duo system (i.e. up to ~60
seconds). That is, grub prints:
------
root (hd0,0)
kernel ...
initrd ...
<flashing cursor for a long time, i.e. up to 60 seconds>
------
and then continues booting normally.
If the initrd file takes **4 or less** extents on the ext2 filesystem,
the initrd is loaded in "no time" (i.e. faster than the eye can see).
I originally reported the problem here:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=808611
Is this a known problem with the grub ext2 driver?
Best regards,
J Brauchle
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature