Apparently the reason my computer has been taking 2 minutes to boot was a faulty network mount

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I’m pretty sure the main system startup bottleneck is me typing the disk encryption passphrase.

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Combine that with the 20-30 seconds my system takes to do bios memory training on the DDR5 ram and we’re practically back to the “go make some coffee while the system boots up” days 🤦

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we need open source firmware

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If only Coreboot supported more devices…

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Glad I haven’t built a modern chipset PC yet, didn’t realize it was this bad.

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As another DDR5 user, it’s not always this bad - there’s a bios setting that makes it remember the previous configuration and skips this step, but sometimes it still needs to do it, and then it can take a minute or two

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Those where the good days. You always had fresh coffee when your computer was ready for work.

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I can relate to this hahaha

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My system bottleneck is the damn Bios Post

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I wish to replace it with a yubikey, but I don’t even know if it’s supported.

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It is supported by systemd to use FIDO2 + pin to decrypt luks partitions with many security keys, including Yubikeys. I use it every day on my laptop.

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It is, I have it set up on my laptop. It’s a bit finicky in how it works and it’s not easy to setup, but it is possible.

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Does it work by emulating the keyboard and typing in the password? Or by the encrypted protocol that works using the on device secret?

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You can’t even use a fucking fingerprint scanner while being in the system, that package is borked for months and nobody seem to care to solve it.

I think using Yubikey at boot time is quite out of reach

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Fucking true. Does anyone know why this is so slow?

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