On 2023-10-18, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Oh well, I rarely reboot so it just hasn't been on the top of my > list of things to fix.
I don't really care much on the Ubuntu servers I maintain because they are rarely rebooted, and their network interfaces are always up. A couple weeks ago I was testing/troubleshooting some PCI-express board prototypes which meant rebooting dozens of times a day. I threw Ubuntu server on a spare machine for that, but the 2-minute delay drove me nuts. After futzing around for a while, I did get Ubuntu to boot in a timely fashion [but it meant I had to manually configure one of the network interfaces with 'ip' when I wanted to use it]. However, I never could get the serial console to work acceptably on Ubuntu. It worked fine during the kernel boot, but once systemd started up, the serial console got shut down. I wasted hours trying to figure out how to fix that before I gave up on Ubuntu. I finally ended up installing Gentoo/openrc, and then it only took a few minutes to figure out how to keep the serial console working. -- Grant
