[Bug 669023] [NEW] boot screen takes about 90 seconds between grub and seeing the boot logo

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I boot my system from a usb stick (the home partition is on a separate SD-Card). When I insert the harddrive (without using it) the system boots much faster from the usb stick than without the harddrive while only accessing the harddrive one or two times at the beginning.
Without a harddrive in it, ubuntu takes about 80 to 90 seconds each time between showing grub and showing the ubuntu logo plymouth screen and then loads within about 10 seconds to the desktop (really fast).

Were it not much faster with the harddrive (which is not really
functional because it has a physical header crash), I would just assume
it was a slow usb drive, but this test lead me to believe that somehow
the boot system is probing for a harddrive for a long time. Still I have
no idea if this is what is really happening...

1)Description:	Ubuntu 10.10
Release:	10.10

2) If it is plymouth
plymouth:
  Installed: 0.8.2-2ubuntu5
  Candidate: 0.8.2-2ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.2-2ubuntu5 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) Boot as fast as with a harddrive inserted

4) Boots a lot slower than with an inserted but not used harddrive

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 31 10:06:10 2010
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta i386 (20100901.1)
MachineType: IBM 1866WBA
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   3.3V 32-bit PC Card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic root=UUID=969cbe95-7a27-405e-833c-a16a9b6983e3 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
dmi.bios.date: 03/14/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: IBM
dmi.bios.version: 75ET56WW (2.02 )
dmi.board.name: 1866WBA
dmi.board.vendor: IBM
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: IBM
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIBM:bvr75ET56WW(2.02):bd03/14/2006:svnIBM:pn1866WBA:pvrThinkPadX41Tablet:rvnIBM:rn1866WBA:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 1866WBA
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X41 Tablet
dmi.sys.vendor: IBM

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 maverick
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boot screen takes about 90 seconds between grub and seeing the boot logo
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669023
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