My user account doesnt have sudo despite being in sudoers. I cant run new commands i have to execute the binary. Grub takes very long to load with “welcome to grub” message. I just wanted a stable distro as arch broke and currupted my external ssd

  • tal@lemmy.today
    2·
    1 year ago

    For the GRUB delay…hmm. GRUB’s pretty early in the boot process. I’m not totally sure what would add delay in Debian. Not a lot of per-distro difference there.

    GRUB itself has a delay of a few seconds until it starts automatically booting Linux, time to give someone the option to choose something else. That delay is configurable and might vary on a per-distro basis, but that delay has the GRUB screen visible already. So I don’t think it’d give the symptoms you describe.

    I’d think that you’d have to be either doing BIOS stuff or something very early in the GRUB startup to be getting a delay before the GRUB screen is visible.

    considers

    Maybe your BIOS is waiting for the old boot drive to come up – you said something about an external drive dying – then timing out and looking through the list of remaining bootable drives and finding GRUB installed there? Maybe try going into BIOS and explicitly selecting the Debian boot drive as being the drive that you want to boot from?

      • tal@lemmy.today
        2·
        1 year ago

        All right. Hmm.

        I’d still probably try booting up with the external drive disconnected – should be an easy test – and seeing if the pre-GRUB delay doesn’t show up. If either the BIOS or GRUB is trying to talk to the drive and it’s taking a while to respond because it’s having problems, something which I have certainly seen many a (well, rotational) drive do, that might account for the delay.