On Tuesday 2016-01-12 21:35, Felix Miata wrote: > Filesystem type is ex2fs, partition type 0x83 >kernel /boot/vmlinuz <yada...> >initrd /boot/initrd > >Above used to display on screen barely long enough to notice. Since about a >year ago, maybe 11 months or less, on at least two different HDs and with >multiple distro, dracut and kernel versions, I have been seeing enormous >delays, with the above on screen several minutes with some >distro/kernel/initrd duos, but not with others.[...] >What's responsible for the delay besides initrd size? BIOS disk access sloth? >BIOS setting? The BIOS certainly plays a role in it, in particular, how it implements the int13 disk access. You see that with the huge discrepancy of (openSUSE) DVD boot times with real (non-EFI) hardware, and with a virtual machine (still non-EFI) "hardware". The bootloader probably also factors in; harddisk booting is commonly done with GRUB, but if you have some bootstick, it may be with syslinux/extlinux. Or you use pxelinux over network - even there, the speed differs vastly between hardware generations, even though network is (even on old hardware) pretty much the same speed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
