[syslinux] [Bug]: Extlinux needs 1 minute before boot menu is shown

Martin Stolpe martinstolpe at gmail.com
Thu Aug 26 00:57:29 PDT 2010


Hello,
when I try to boot from my computer extlinux needs about one minute before the 
boot menu is shown. Here's my system configuration
-Two IDE drives on one controller
-Second hdd is boot hdd
-I'm using Arch Linux (i686)

Is there an official bug tracker which I can use? I only found the debian bug 
tracker and I can't find any information about bugs on the homepage.

Here is my extlinux.conf:
  DEFAULT vesamenu.c32
  PROMPT 0
  MENU TITLE Arch Linux
  MENU BACKGROUND splash.png
  TIMEOUT 50

  MENU WIDTH 78
  MENU MARGIN 4
  MENU ROWS 5
  MENU VSHIFT 10
  MENU TIMEOUTROW 13
  MENU TABMSGROW 11
  MENU CMDLINEROW 11
  MENU HELPMSGROW 16
  MENU HELPMSGENDROW 29

  # Refer to http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Doc/menu

  MENU COLOR border       30;44   #40ffffff #a0000000 std
  MENU COLOR title        1;36;44 #9033ccff #a0000000 std
  MENU COLOR sel          7;37;40 #e0ffffff #20ffffff all
  MENU COLOR unsel        37;44   #50ffffff #a0000000 std
  MENU COLOR help         37;40   #c0ffffff #a0000000 std
  MENU COLOR timeout_msg  37;40   #80ffffff #00000000 std
  MENU COLOR timeout      1;37;40 #c0ffffff #00000000 std
  MENU COLOR msg07        37;40   #90ffffff #a0000000 std
  MENU COLOR tabmsg       31;40   #30ffffff #00000000 std

  LABEL arch
    MENU LABEL Boot Arch Linux (i686)
    KERNEL vmlinuz26
    APPEND initrd=kernel26.img root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/0ff4c04f-c05c-4662-
b648-06f05b0ead32 ro resume=swap:/dev/disk/by-
uuid/73ab1690-3e03-4385-80d1-7c05f507c509

  LABEL arch_custom
    MENU LABEL Boot Arch Linux (custom kernel)
    KERNEL vmlinuz26-kms
    APPEND initrd=kernel26-kms.img root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/0ff4c04f-c05c-4662-
b648-06f05b0ead32 ro resume=swap:/dev/disk/by-
uuid/73ab1690-3e03-4385-80d1-7c05f507c509

  LABEL windows
    MENU LABEL Windows
    KERNEL chain.c32
    APPEND hd1 2

  # http://www.memtest.org/
  LABEL memtest
    MENU LABEL Run Memtest86+ (RAM test)
    KERNEL memtest86+/memtest.bin

  LABEL reboot
    MENU LABEL Reboot
    KERNEL reboot.c32

  ONTIMEOUT arch_custom

Output from sfdisk -l:
  Disk /dev/sdb: 30515 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
  Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

     Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
  /dev/sdb1          0+  21927   21928- 176136628+   7  HPFS/NTFS
  /dev/sdb2   *  21928   21950      23     184747+  83  Linux (ext2)
  /dev/sdb3      21951   30514    8564   68790330   83  Linux (ext3)
  /dev/sdb4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty

  Disk /dev/sda: 7297 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
  Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

     Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
  /dev/sda1   *      0+   2330    2331-  18723726    7  HPFS/NTFS
  /dev/sda2       2331+   6982    4652-  37367188    7  HPFS/NTFS
  		start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,0,5)
  /dev/sda3       6983    7284     302    2425815   82  Linux swap / Solaris
  /dev/sda4       7285    7296      12      96390   83  Linux

Greetings,
Martin




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