I'm always on the lookout for ways to make booting faster... currently I'm getting stumped with a 3 second pause in kernel boot. Any ideas on this one?
[ 4.005455] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules-boot.d/*
[ 4.018017] init: - preinit -
[ 4.038252] microcode: updated to revision 0x27, date = 2019-02-26
[ 4.047749] x86/CPU: CPU features have changed after loading microcode, but might not take effect.
[ 4.057650] x86/CPU: Please consider either early loading through initrd/built-in or a potential BIOS update.
[ 4.073777] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 4.083736] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 4.092147] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 7.131281] mount_root: mounting /dev/root
[ 7.138471] EXT4-fs (sdb2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[ 7.144343] mount_root: loading kmods from internal overlay
[ 7.154091] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from //etc/modules-boot.d/*
[ 7.162092] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from //etc/modules-boot.d/*
[ 7.192589] block: attempting to load /etc/config/fstab
[ 7.200685] block: extroot: not configured
[ 7.220057] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem without journal. Opts: (null)
[ 7.228828] urandom-seed: Seeding with /etc/urandom.seed
[ 7.236969] procd: - early -
It's just after some reads of urandom... is it waiting for entropy? This is on an x86 Intel i3.