Improving the Fedora boot experience

[drago01]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> 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).

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.