#950175 grub-common: Grub delays 23 seconds to show the menu.

Package:
grub-common
Source:
grub2
Description:
GRand Unified Bootloader (common files)
Submitter:
Bernhard Übelacker
Date:
2021-11-11 09:33:03 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#950175#5
Date:
2020-01-29 19:50:54 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,
I noticed some moths ago a delay between Grub gets
started ("Welcome to GRUB!") and Grub shows the menu.
I switched a few days ago from stable to Bullseye/testing
at this device and tried to find out where this 23 seconds
delay is coming from.

After some tests I found that /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme
is convinced that the root partition is readable by Grub.

Unfortunately this is not the case, as root is on a micro-sd card,
just boot is on the internal MMC. Also the EFI shell did
not recognize the partition table of that micro-sd, as far as I see.
The "search" command below takes these 23 seconds.

As a workaround I copied grub-16x9.png from
/usr/share/desktop-base/futureprototype-theme/grub
to /boot/grub/ and did "update-grub".

Now the delay is gone and the background image is shown by Grub.

I wonder why the background image is not
copied to the boot partition by default?

Kind regards,
Bernhard

#950175#10
Date:
2021-11-11 09:29:54 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,
this following bug might be kind of similar.

https://bugs.debian.org/997844

Kind regards,
Bernhard