What are these F-10 boot slides?

[Les Mikesell]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 December 2008 17:00:16 Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> The boot screen is somewhat secondary to the main target of decreasing
>> boot time.  Whether any particular machine gets the spiffy graphic, it
>> should still boot significantly faster using the new system.  Although
>> kernel mode setting hasn't been implemented for all cards, it was
>> originally supposed to also work for Intel too -- until Intel made an
>> eleventh-hour change.  We hope to have those and many more cards
>> working with the spiffy boot graphics for Fedora 11, but regardless,
>> boot speed is a very important consideration.
> 
> Well, on my netbook it has been spectacularly unsuccessful.  The boot time is 
> horrifically long.  It seems that it first tries to bring up my wireless 
> connection, failing miserably, then it tries to mount my 3 defined nfs mounts.  
> Two of them are always available, one is not always.  Instead of a reasonably 
> short wait time, then moving on, it seems to wait a very long time.  If 
> anyone's interested I'll time it.  Failing gracefully is something it needs to 
> learn.

By design NFS should wait for success (you may not have anything 
else...).  If failure is expected or acceptable, you need to specify 
bg,soft for the mount - or better yet use the automounter so you don't 
even consider mounting until the need arises.

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    Les Mikesell
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