Comment 9 for bug 453876

Same here, ubuntu 9.10 (rc) is on a large 180GB ext4 partition sdb3 and it takes a long time.
When I install it on a test partition sdb1 ext3 (14GB) it shows the boot items quickly.

rant
grub2 also seems a pain to edit manually, my default choice isn´t the same as the bootloader thinks.
It should be easier not more difficult. Please take out your eleven year old BeOS disk to see how simple
it can be to setup a bootloader: bootman
/rant