10-23-2004
Your HD being slow is probably not related to GRUB. I use GRUB with RHAS 3.0 and Windows XP on my laptop and have never noticed any slowness. If the slowness only occurs in one OS I would check the runnins processes for that OS and see what your memory usage is. If it happens for all OSes then you may have a HD that is going bad. Check the error logs and run some diagnostics, especially any that came from your hardware vendor.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
grub-install
GRUB-INSTALL(8) FSF GRUB-INSTALL(8)
NAME
grub-install - install GRUB on your drive
SYNOPSIS
grub-install [OPTION] install_device
DESCRIPTION
Install GRUB on your drive.
-h, --help
print this message and exit
-v, --version
print the version information and exit
--root-directory=DIR
install GRUB images under the directory DIR instead of the root directory
--grub-shell=FILE
use FILE as the grub shell
--no-floppy
do not probe any floppy drive
--force-lba
force GRUB to use LBA mode even for a buggy BIOS
--recheck
probe a device map even if it already exists
INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename.
grub-install copies GRUB images into the DIR/boot directory specfied by --root-directory, and uses the grub shell to install grub into the
boot sector.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>.
SEE ALSO
grub(8), update-grub(8).
The full documentation for grub-install is maintained as a Texinfo manual in the grub-legacy-doc package. If the info and grub-install
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info grub-install
should give you access to the complete manual.
grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.97) January 2013 GRUB-INSTALL(8)