On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 19:01:47 -0600
Neil Rickert
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On 2/22/19 9:12 AM, Bob Williams wrote:
I have openSUSE Leap 15.0 installed on my laptop, with both / and /home (separate partitions, both on SSDs) encrypted. On booting, grub2 asks for the passphrase to decrypt /, then takes about 10 seconds to offer an OS to load (there's only one). When Leap gets the passphrase to decrypt /home, it immediately proceeds with loading the operating system.
Grub is using the services of your BIOS (or UEFI firmware) to read the disk and locate the menu.
I suppose a faster BIOS might speed things up (if available).
Once Leap has loaded the kernel, it uses the faster kernel drivers to access the disk.
Ah, thank you. I hadn't thought of that. Bob -- Bob Williams System: Linux 4.20.0-3.ga24f9ea-default Distro: Desktop: KDE Frameworks: 5.45.0, Qt: 5.9.4 and Plasma: 5.12.5