• kelean
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Topic: Odd countdown timer issue from grub screen

I have an old Sony viao laptop.  When the grub screen loads there is 5 seconds to choose what will boot.  The timer runs very slow.  It actually takes 18 seconds to countdown 5 seconds.  I have not had this happen on with other distro's.

The laptop is a Sony viao PCG-F480 P-3 800 MHz 256 megs of ram.   I am using the 2.6.39-bpo.2-486 kernel

I have no problem with it but I am really curious

Thanks Kelean..




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  • ethrg
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Re: Odd countdown timer issue from grub screen

Wow! I always heard this was out there, but never actually encountered anyone who had it personally. Supposedly,or at least the way we tell the story at he bar, the CMOS battery gets drained, and when it counts time prior to loading a post-BIOS OS it does so sssssloowwwwwwllly. None of us have actually confirmed that this is the case, but it sure makes for a fun tale. (Oh my god, my friends and I really are nerds).

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Re: Odd countdown timer issue from grub screen

Change your:

/etc/default/grub

and you have to change this line:

GRUB_TIMEOUT=

You can change many things there but be careful.

Edit: And do not forget to run:

update-grub

afterwards.

Last edited by ivanovnegro (2012-02-03 10:03:56)

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Re: Odd countdown timer issue from grub screen

Hmm... this laptop right here is a very slightly newer Vaio (VGN-G1 ~1GHz 1000MB) but I get an amazing long timelag before the BIOS splashscreen comes up - 4~15 min! Maybe the same depleted-CMOS battery issue?

@ivan I think the OP's problem is that the actual delay is longer that what's set in the config.

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