Hi, i’m trying to speed up the bootup process of my
intel nuc, and I’m wondering is there a way to use
uki. Does fedora server support uki? From what I read
grub fedora installs can be transformed into uki ones,
Does this process support other environments than
VMs and is it stable?
uki is unlikely to make the boot process any faster. Most of the time in the boot process is spent in the inital ram file system, and that part will stay the same.
I have seen several posts where a user had the uki kernels installed and wound up with the /boot partition filling up due to the extra kernels and dnf was not removing older kernels with updates. Search here for ‘uki’ to see them.
As uki on fedora isn’t yet stable as much, i decided to try using systemd-boot and now the bootloader loads 7X faster, where grub was taking me 7 seconds to load previously. Also it disabled the poweroff text and has playmouth transitions.
Is systemd-boot faster than traditional grub in if that is the case why fedora still on grub.
Hmm, maybe because of the customization support(like setting the theme). I don’t think there’s anything else other than that.
systemd-boot is EFI only, GRUB supports both EFI and BIOS.
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Systemd-boot also has not supported secure boot (unless that has changed recently) because it has not had the properly signed shim file for that.
Unless systemd-boot is able to support secure boot I would not expect fedora to switch.