[Wowfunhappy]

> If you turn off the startup chime sound (which is a checkbox in system settings), that cuts out 2 seconds of iBoot time and makes it 14 seconds total.

Lol, wait, so the startup chime blocks the rest of the boot process?! I would have expected the system to be working on booting while the chime was playing.

Now I'm not sure whether I should keep the chime turned on. I like the chime, but I'm not sure I want to pay two extra seconds for it. :)

[marcan_42]

I think it's mostly that by the time the system is ready to play the chime, it takes less than two seconds to do whatever is left before transferring control to iBoot2, and of course you can't leave audio playing as you call a new piece of code... so even if the playback happens in the background, it would still have to wait for it to finish.