Any pointer to troubleshoot these peculiar delays? Everything seems normal once I get to the boot menu.<br><br>The delays are rather consistent as below. One thing I suspect is the potentially wrong cable grade/type for the new EIDE disk.<br>
<ul><li>~1m for disks probe by BIOS</li><li>~1m before transitions from the POST screen to a blank screen<br></li><li>~1m before before 'GRUB loading stage1.5' appears on the blank screen<br></li><li>~1m before 'GRUB loading' appears<br>
</li><li>~1m before showing GRUB boot menu</li></ul><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Jerry Yu <<a href="mailto:jjj863@gmail.com">jjj863@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
u r correct, Geoffrey. a disk is just a disk. The box booted up to Linux just fine, with the EIDE disk replaced in-place.<br><br>It was peculiar that the grub loading is rather slow. 15s before it says 'GRUB loading stage 1.5', then another 15s bfore it says 'loading GRUB'. Once I got to the GRUB boot menu, everything seems to normal speed.<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Geoffrey <<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com" target="_blank">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div>Jerry Yu wrote:<br>
> I used gparted live cd to copy/resize a small EIDE disk (60G) to a bigger<br>
> EIDE disk (120G). The new disk was in an external USB enclosure.<br>
> gparted saw 60G as hda and 120G as sdb. It successfully copied & grew all<br>
> five partitions (4 linux ext3 & 1 fat32).<br>
><br>
> Now I am ready to take this EIDE disk out of the USB enclosure & to replace<br>
> the smaller EIDE disk. / & MBR & GRUB is on a separate SATA disk (sda)<br>
><br>
> would the net changes on the new disk differ, somehow, when parted did all<br>
> its magic thinking it handled a SCSI disk instead of a EIDE disk?<br>
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</div></div>I don't think gparted has anything to do with that. Once you put the<br>
drive in the computer, boot it with gparted and the partitions will no<br>
longer show up as scsi.<br>
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I would expect that swaping eide for eide will permit you to simply boot<br>
afterwards, as long as you're correct in that mbr/grub is on a separate<br>
drive.<br>
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Until later, Geoffrey<br>
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