small issue after mint install

[hatebreed]

I just installed linux mint a couple of days ago and everything went great but now the grub screen takes about 20 seconds to a minute to load. It's not a huge issue but kind of annoying since the one that ubuntu installed took a second and I was at the menu. I imagine that it has to do with the background picture but i'm not sure if that would slow it down that much. Any suggestions?

[cms9000]

My guess would be the background image. It has done that with me before, so I just don't bother with it. In theory it is a nice idea, nice eye candy to show off to people (Plus I think it is just cool, lol) But I would rather just get my computer booting as fast as I can.

[D-cat]

I've seen that happen when trying to boot from an unclean Reiser partition. I wouldn't think ext4 (*buntu default) would have the same problem, but not impossible. You can try running a quick fsck to make sure the file system is clean.

[dancingdog777]

I've seen that happen when trying to boot from an unclean Reiser partition. I wouldn't think ext4 (*buntu default) would have the same problem, but not impossible. You can try running a quick fsck to make sure the file system is clean.

In Debian distros (including all Ubuntu flavours) you can force a file system check by opening a terminal and typing sudo touch /forcefsck and then re-booting the computer. Note the gaps in the command,

[devils casper]

Which version of Mint are you using? Post the output of this

sudo fdisk -l
df -h

I don't think its a background problem because you can't use just any background for GRUB Menu. It doesn't allow to use image other than specified properties. ( 640x480, 14 colors pallet).