On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> wrote: > Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org> said: >> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 01:28:36PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: >> > Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett <mj...@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. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
