[yocto] Boot loader/boot times

[Marc Ferland]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 06:28:40PM -0600, Michael Gloff wrote:
>    What bootloaders are most people here using (x86)? I'm using lilo and
>    it seems slow. Even skipping the data check it sits for about 5-8 secs
>    on a D525 Atom board. Total boot is about 20-25 secs, but I would like
>    to minimize it as much as possible. I know where the other delays are,
>    but Ubuntu on the same machine gives a login in about 5 sec total.

I think the default bootloader for x86 machines on yocto is
syslinux.

To reduce the bootloader time try reducing your kernel/initrd sizes,
also check if there isn't any default timeout value configured in.

Marc