Improving the Fedora boot experience

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Wed Mar 13 19:52:23 UTC 2013


Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> said:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 01:28:36PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> > Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> said:
> > > Worse than that, having grub check for a held key will significantly 
> > > slow down the boot process even if there's no key being held.
> > 
> > How long is "significantly"?  How hard is it to check for a keypress?
> 
> On the order of a second or two.

That doesn't seem all that significant to me; I guess we have different
measures (to me "significantly slow down the boot process" would be
something on the order of 5-10 seconds or more).

> How much detail would you like for the 
> second question?

Well, it seems like 1-2 seconds is a long time just to check, but that
was a rhetorical question.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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