On 18 August 2013, at 15:16, pk wrote: > ... > 1. Most of the time spent when cold booting is spent in the BIOS/UEFI > cycle (around 30 seconds), the time from grub display to login (I'm > using "slim") is 5 seconds (max).
Blimey! You must have a slow BIOS cycle. I mean, maybe my servers take that long (I'm not sure, I boot them annually and don't watch them rebooting) but I have a little eMachines nettop here - the first time I tried to enter BIOS, it look me several attempts, it boots past that so quick! I've now enabled the option to wait 5 seconds before loading the bootloader, but quickboot on this system is less than 2 seconds in BIOS cycle. (OTOH, going from grub to login in 5 seconds - that suggests to me that you're using an SSD and not a hard-drive). Stroller.
