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pressing tab (or whatever is instructed on boot screen, idunno don’t have efi here) should let you see the full bootline parameters, to check whether quiet is specified
The liveboot efi is probably blackbox, unchanged by antiX. We get whatever the upstream provides and debian packages.
okay put on your sunglasses, here come a few bright ideas:
Possibly an updated firmware is available from lenovo which would remedy the slow booting.
Visit F2 bios setup and check whether you can manually choose device boot order, to “usb first, if present” or whatever option is available.
Check /var/log/ or /var/log/live/ to see what error messages are being spewed to logfile during the 5 minute boot stall.
Bootchart indicates “udev” is running for minutes. Struggling to find a driver? Bad/intermittent hardware errors?
Something in the bootchart about set-console-width…. and same shown at right side of bootchart.
It’s not a solid line like that process was running the whole time. It gets interrupted, suspended, while udev it doing something else???
Far out possibility: typed a custom boot parameter, intended to type “conwidth=140” but typo, or key repeat, wound up with conwidth=1400 or something, and the init is struggling trying to satisfy requested out-of-range width value?
If the boot device is liveusb, I don’t understand how grub2 enters the picture. AFAIK, syslinux provides the liveboot efi bootloader and I see nothing on the syslinux.org site mentioning ability to tweak the behavior for “threads”.
