Improving the Fedora boot experience

[drago01]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Once upon a time, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> said:
>> Seems like you are used to slow boots.
>> Watch (or even use) a system with non rotating media (i.e SSDs) that
>> does not have a ton of crap set up to be started on boot and you will
>> notice this "1 or 2 seconds" as significant.
>
> My main home system has an SSD, and I'd be hard-pressed to notice one
> second out of the boot process (although I don't reboot it often, since
> I just suspend-to-RAM).
>
> I don't find saving 1-2 seconds compelling enough to disable the
> end-user from interrupting the boot process to choose alternate kernels,
> kernel options, etc.  Unless you have a 100% fail-proof method of
> detecting failed boots, you're just setting up a system where a stuck
> boot is unrecoverable without additional resources (such as a rescue
> CD).

I do have my laptop configured that way and I do not live in fear of
my system suddenly not booting up because of an update.