On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 12:54:04PM +0000, James Dutton wrote:
> One question, does it boot faster if you just press enter at the grub
> menu, and don't wait for the counter?
On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 11:08:37AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
[...]
> When it reached the GRUB screen, I pressed Enter, and nothing happened
> as far as I could see. I was initially worried that it had stopped
> seeing my USB keyboard (a thing that I've experienced with GRUB and
> certain USB slots on certain machines in the past). This keyboard
> plugged into this same USB slot had worked in previous versions of GRUB
> on this machine, though.
>
> The next thing I observed was that after 5 seconds, it still hadn't
> booted, nor had the coundown ("will automatically boot in 5s" or whatever)
> advanced. It appeared to be hung.
>
> I waited a bit longer, and the 5s changed to 4s. It just took a really
> long time (like 15+ seconds for each second on the timer).
>
> Eventually, after a minute or two, the system booted. Everything is
> working normally now, post-GRUB.
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