Hi there,
I want to write grub on MBR after Windows ans Solaris istallation but it takes extremely long. Any ideea? Before (RedHat 8) grub-install took only a few seconds. Now I have to wait 10-15 seconds for the commnad to finish.

What I did:
1) Boot with the fc4 rescue cd
2) chroot /mnt/sysimage (after the rescue environment recognized the installation)
3) grub-install /dev/hda
4) Wait, wait and wait. After 10-15 minutes it finishes without error and everything works as expected.

Any Ideea?

Thnaks


P.S. I have 6 box. On 5 of them it takes a long time to finish but on one station is needs only 10-15 seconds. Could it be a bug in grub-install or I do something wrong?

No real ideas but grub is pretty smart, pehaps it was checking something out first.

what could it be checking?

Good question, my answer was obviously not thought out very well. But I guess there's stuff like HD partitions. Strange that it should take so long to do it though.

Grub takes just a few seconds to install on my systems, which makes me wonder whether there was some sort of hardware issue on your system.