Long lag time to boot to usb devices

[Goh Lip]

This is not a 'show stopper', just that it been a while and neither grub 
1.98 nor grub 1.99 has resolved it.

When booting up OS in usb external drives, either flash or disk, there 
is a 35 secs delay before anything kicks in.

So I wonder if there has been any schedule of action to resolve it.

Thanks - Goh Lip