Hi, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <m...@tobias.gr> skribis:
> Adam Van Ymeren wrote on 16/12/17 at 00:25: >> On December 15, 2017 5:53:15 PM EST, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> >> wrote: >>> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >>> >>>> I have an encrypted root. When GRUB asks me for my passphrase, >>>> it takes 5–10 seconds after I hit enter before it displays the >>>> menu; then, once I've selected an entry, it takes another 5 seconds >>>> or so to boot. >>>> >>>> It’s always been this way for me (that’s on UEFI), but I’m >>>> sufficiently annoyed to write this message today. :-) >>>> >>>> Are others experiencing this as well? Any hints? >>> >>> I also use a LUKS-encrypted root partition, and the same thing >>> happens to me. I would guess that the cryptographic operations in >>> GRUB are not well optimized, but I haven't looked closely. >>> >>> Mark >> >> Even unoptimized 5-10s seems pretty long. It's not like it has a >> lot of data to process. > > Alas, you'd be wrong :-) What’s also “reassuring” is that the searching for “grub luks slow” suggests that the whole world is booting slowly, not just GuixSD users. :-) Ludo’.
