Grub2: terribly slow at boot

Karmic Koala comes with Grub2, on a fresh install (but it will keep grub legacy on upgrades).

Beside the scarcely comprehensible layer of complexity that grub2 has added to the great old grub, I was very disappointed by the long delay on boot.

After BIOS, the booting process just hanged with a "GRUB starting" message on black screen.

It stays like that for ~15-20 seconds.

Than grub menu shows up.

Amazing, since Karmic was said to be one of the fastest booting experiences one could have....

Now, poossibly the solution is here:

Grub 2 Basics

Grub 2 Hangs 10-30 Seconds between Grub 2 Loading and Menu Display.

This is a known bug that can be caused by GRUB 2 and /boot being loaded on different partitions. To fix the problem, run

Code:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc

Select to load Grub 2 on the same device as the /boot partition. In your system BIOS, change the drive to boot from first to the drive with the /boot partition.

As it happens, my /boot partition and my /home are on two different disks.

I need to check, but it might actually be that grub got installed on the disk with the /home partition and not the one with /boot and / partitions (which is amazing, since I kept the insalling disk for grub suggested by the installation process....).