Bug#401916: Bug 401916: analysis and suggested solution
Quoting Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>:
> On Monday 19 February 2007 21:22, David Härdeman wrote:
> > The only problem with the approach is that a large majority of all
> > machines have usb which means that we'll slow down the boot for all
> > those machines even though a small minority are affected.
>
> That's a very, very ugly solution then. I'd almost say it's unacceptable
> to add more than 1, maybe 2 seconds for something like this.
> Is there really no way to avoid that?
>
> Note that you will get loads of bug reports complaining about "long pause
> during boot" if you do this. I know from experience how completely
> annoying such pauses are (see #401352).
>
quickly replying via a strange webinterface from a strange "internet" access.
anyway you must have misunderstood David, the timeout would only happen
if you have usb||firewire storage plugged in.
and i agree that 10 seconds is long but other distro do the same apparently.
we might cut it to 6 or 7.
best regards
--
maks
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