Stefan Seyfried composed on 2016-04-03 09:15 (UTC+0200):
Felix Miata Composed: ...
The delay is obviously at vmlinuz/initrd load time, as the Grub loading messages stay on screen for the entirety of the delay. The problem is finding a way to troubleshoot.
That's relatively easy (with grub2): Just edit /boot/grub2/grub.cfg (it will be overwritten by grub2-mkconfig). Find places like this:
echo 'Loading Linux 4.5.0-4.g3d86af7-default ...' linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.5.0-4.g3d86af7-default root=/dev/sda1 quiet echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...' initrd /boot/initrd-4.5.0-4.g3d86af7-default
and add the line after "initrd":
echo 'done! booting now.'
Then you'll see this additional line before the kernel starts booting. If you also remove "quiet", then you'll probably see kernel messages earlier than you do now.
Good idea! I adapted your suggestion to the installation currently vexing my attempts to fix, host big31's 13.2, thus: title openSUSE 13.2 defkernel root (hd0,12) pause press any key to begin kernel /boot/vmlinuz <yada> pause post-kernel, pre-initrd initrd /boot/initrd pause post-initrd Between first and second pause took 85 seconds. Between second and third was too short to measure. So, Grub's apparently having a problem loading the 3.16.7-35 kernel (5686472 bytes), a problem which as noted up-thread disappears if moving the installation from EXT4 to EXT3. On same host, I tried same with TW: 90 seconds between first and second pauses, 100 seconds between second and third pauses (kernel 4.4.1-1; 6182432 bytes; initrd 6978588 bytes). :-( -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org