Re: Boot poster challenge

[Ralf Ertzinger <fedora-devel camperquake de>]

Hi.

Arjan van de Ven <arjanv redhat com> wrote:

> given the 7 second disk read time... 10 seconds is a bit unrealistic.
> One of the critical paths will be getting an IP address and mounting the
> /home dir over nfs... ethernet negotiation can easily be 10 seconds
> already with gige, and DHCP is depending on that to complete before it
> can get a lease.

WRT DHCP: why does FC wait in the foreground to get an IP? Is there a
magic switch I haven't found yet to make that a background process?

It's quite boring to watch my notebook wait for a nonexistent DHCP
server because it's location changed from the last boot.

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