What are your tips for faster boots? My system seems to hang a bit at POST until it boots into Mint. Right after post I’ll get a blinking cursor for about a full minute until it boots in. All ssd, so I know it’s something I must have done wrong. It’s also a 14 year old processor (amd fx be 8 core, rx580), but win### booted faster on it.
I am going to guess its getting the network up and going. You should be able to hit escape on the screen and see where the boot is in its process. Getting the networking going during boot is something a lot of linux installs will do as most enterprise/devs (tbh the biggest part of their audience) have network attached storage. I have never looked into getting it just to move on past it (it will still start the process for getting networking online, it just shouldnt pause) I know that some fedora installs I have had in the past did this.
But boot it again and hit escape and get more info and if it something else post again here maybe we can help better.