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Probably a significant proportion of the sysadmins who experienced that one-second pause.

The "print a message telling the user that we're rebooting, then wait a second to let them read the console before we go ahead and reboot", on the other hand...

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Maybe I'm just different. I've watched a great many openbsd boot sequences, which tend to have a great many pauses, and I've never paid any special attention to the lines that come before pauses vs lines that come after pauses.

I suspect that FreeBSD has fewer pauses than OpenBSD... especially after the work I've done over the past few years to speed it up.

If anyone in the OpenBSD world is interested in speeding up your boot process I'd be happy to share tips and code. It's a bit daunting to start with but with some good tools it becomes a lot of fun.

Thank you! That would be me. I am clueless on amd64 on how to speed up the boot process and maybe change a few fonts during boot.

I understand the reasons for no "how-tos". But sometimes they make sense for people like me. I wouldn't mind delving a bit deeper given some direction.

The first thing you'll want to do is port my TSLOG code to the OpenBSD kernel and start instrumenting things there. Send me an email, there's too much detail to get into for an HN comment.

if the machine boots in 20ms, I think that message is actually useful, because something would reboot your machine and you'd think you got logged out because you blinked

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