On December 15, 2017 5:53:15 PM EST, Mark H Weaver <[email protected]> wrote: >[email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> I have an encrypted root. When GRUB asks me for my passphrase, it >takes >> 5–10 seconds after I hit enter before it displays the menu; then, >once >> I’ve selected an entry, it takes another 5 seconds or so to boot. >> >> It’s always been this way for me (that’s on UEFI), but I’m >sufficiently >> annoyed to write this message today. :-) >> >> Are others experiencing this as well? Any hints? > >I also use a LUKS-encrypted root partition, and the same thing happens >to me. I would guess that the cryptographic operations in GRUB are not >well optimized, but I haven't looked closely. > > Mark
Even unoptimized 5-10s seems pretty long. It's not like it has a lot of data to process. I have an encrypted root as well, I don't think it takes 5s after I enter the passphrase to get the grub men, maybe 1 or 2. Next time I reboot I'll make a note of it.
