Since upgrading to CentOS 8, after hitting return in the GRUB boot selector screen, there is a 60 second or so pause before vmlinuz is read and the line
Probing EDD (off to disable)
appears, whereas in CentOS 7 the transition took less than 1 second. During this 60 second pause, there is occasional very brief disk access activity.
Does anybody know what is happening during this period ? Indeed, does it happen for everybody, or is it something idiosyncratic to my setup in some way ?
Thanks,
Roger.