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Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experienceDuffy: Improving the Fedora boot experiencePosted Mar 13, 2013 22:47 UTC (Wed) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950)In reply to: Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience by farnz Parent article: Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience
The systemd developers demonstrated a 2 second boot for kernel+userspace (GDM). This required removing some stuff like LVM, etc. If the firmware of your laptop is quick, a 4 second boot to GDM is realistic (firmware on new laptops can take max 2 seconds if they want to show that shiny Windows logo).
Though if you really have 2 operating systems on there, I think showing a boot menu is good (IIRC that is also the plan).
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Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience Posted Mar 13, 2013 22:52 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Essentially, if you are using a SSD and no LVM, it is likely that your system itself will boot faster than your login time from GDM.
Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience Posted Mar 14, 2013 9:59 UTC (Thu) by Aissen (subscriber, #59976) [Link]
In this case auto-login with automatic screen locking is very useful. Something I use with kdm/KDE, but can't seem to be done with gdm/Gnome.
Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience Posted Mar 14, 2013 10:30 UTC (Thu) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]
File a bug please. Sounds interesting to support.
Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience Posted Mar 14, 2013 10:40 UTC (Thu) by Aissen (subscriber, #59976) [Link]
I went ahead and created an account on Gnome's bugzilla, only to find this was not new:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469571
Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience Posted Mar 14, 2013 10:49 UTC (Thu) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]
GDM almost fully handles the lock screen now, IIRC. So I hope it is now way easier to implement. Before we relied on gnome-screensaver, etc. That is all messy. GDM in 3.8 still has a fallback thing because we removed it too late.
I'll try and convince people that this makes sense. Which I guess means convincing Lennart to convince others :P
Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience Posted Mar 14, 2013 17:19 UTC (Thu) by farnz (guest, #17727) [Link] I've actually got a simpler setup that works for me, without a boot menu. From Windows, holding shift while choosing restart gets me a menu from which I can choose Fedora. It takes about 10 seconds from there (BTRFS on dm-crypt on a slow HDD - so some of the time is eaten up by waiting for the passphrase) to get to the greeter. From Linux, I can either just reboot and end up in Windows, or run a script that just invokes efibootmgr --bootnext 0002 && reboot to reboot back into Fedora. Windows 8 boots in about 5 seconds, and it takes me around 5 seconds to enter my passphrase for the disk, so I don't think Fedora is doing badly; however, I wouldn't object to ever faster Fedora boots. My ideal would be to get back to the boot time of 8-bit home computers - reboot in under a second, but I appreciate that that's outside Fedora's control due to the 2 second BIOS delay.
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