Comment 63 for bug 420933

I upgraded to Grub2 in Jaunty (version 1.96) some time before my upgrade to Karmic thinking it would make the transition easier. XP on sda, Ubuntu on sdb, MBR on sda (same as others here), Grub2 loaded almost instantaneously (both drives are IDE in old HP PC).

After the Karmic upgrade and Grub 1.97 I now stare at "Grub loading" for 15 seconds before the menu appears. Additionally Karmic takes longer to get to the desktop than Jaunty even without the Grub issue.

I could try the workaround and install grub to sdb, but I'm afraid I may break something, and anyway I shouldn't have to since Grub 1.96 worked perfectly! This is a regression that needs to be fixed!