[rahimnathwani]

I just ran systemd-analyze on a low-power machine running debian buster. The last two lines of output were:

boot-efi.mount @4.143s +614ms

dev-mmcblk0p1.device @4.039s

4 seconds seems like a long time to wait for access to the boot device. It's not like an MMC device needs to spin up.

[joezydeco]

If you're using extfs and didn't shut down properly, it's probably doing integrity checks.

[rahimnathwani]

I just rebooted and that first step still took 3.988s

I wonder whether it's something to do with the hardware. The box is a repurposed Dell Wyse thin client.