Comment 1 for bug 420933

The same problem here too, but no where near minutes.
The "[minimal BASH-like..." message, which before the last grub-pc update would only flash by in half a second, now stays up for eleven seconds with constant noises from the hard drive. After the boot menu comes up everything appears to work normally (or perhaps there is a very slight delay for the actual boot to start after I hit enter, but that may just be in my imagination).

This is on an old nforce2 system (gigabyte GA-7nnxp) with a SiI 3112 SATA controller.