boot time reduction??
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Hello
after boot of the system, the pfsense splash screen has a wait time for 30 secs.
Is there any setting which can change it to like 5 or 10 secs??i searched google but could not find anything relavant to 22.05/23.01
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@puneet1984 I am just happy when it completely boots...I am sure pfSense is doing hardware evaluation during that time and the riskier your hardware is the longer the process takes...
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@puneet1984 30 seconds? That's not the normal time - each of my systems is 5 seconds.
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hi
just to be clear, the splash screen (this one) countdown timer is for 30 secs, where it gives options for boot as multiuser or boot as single user.
after the timer ends it takes 5-10 secs to completely boot and show the options screen (this one) with all LAN/WAN/VLAN IP address and options to reboot/halt/CLI access. -
@puneet1984 said in boot time reduction??:
i searched google
Which one ?
And another important info : when your pfSense device boots, it doesn't know it is a .... pfSense device
The BIOS has 'minimal' software on board to make a list of devices known as "disks" and the first one found, and is bootable, and has a boot partition - eufi is a good example - or has a 'mbr', then that ill get loaded and execution is handed over to it.
Later on, the boot menu gets loaded, and that one contains the ASCI art file that shows the "pfSense" boot menu.
At that moment, the system is running what is the preparing and start of a FreeBSD kernel.
pfSense is just a special tailored FreeBSD setup.So, I propose :
freebsd boot delay which gives a usable answer.
or pfsense boot delay and this will, as always, give the best answer on the very first link.Btw : my pfSense has a /boot/loader.conf file with :
... autoboot_delay="3" ...I never put it there, it was put in place when I installed pfSense, 23.01, which was upgraded from 22.05, and this one I installed myself, using an USB stick.
As the pfSense forum thread itells you, do not modify /boot/loader.conf
Create a new file, called /boot/loader.conf/local, and add, for example... autoboot_delay="3" ...This "3" will override whatever the default value is, or what has been declared in the /boot/loader.conf file.
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hi
thanks a lot guys
it worked..
my boot delay was set to 30..
changed it to 5 -
@puneet1984 said in boot time reduction??:
my boot delay was set to 30..
That seems long for sure - had you altered it to that at some point? Maybe it default to that back in the day, or I changed mine at some point? Mine is currently
autoboot_delay="3"
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If that was set to 30s it may have been done deliberately. Typically that might be increased to allow an upstream modem to finish booting before pfSense tries to use it after a power interruption.
Steve
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yes i guess you are right regarding the wait time for modem to restart.
