Hi Robert, Robert Vollmert writes: > On my VPS, booting takes forever (long enough that for a long > time I thought the install had failed). I just rebooted again, > and it took over 7 minutes, see attached screenshot. > > I would suggest skipping the seeding from /dev/hwrng by default > if /var/lib/random-seed is available. I’m assuming here that my > problem is not too rare — if it is, an option to disable the > seeding from /dev/hwrng seems like a good idea. I'm not sure I'm qualified on best practices with regard to urandom, but anecdotally, my servers are booting pretty fast, within a minute, consistently. This is even when booting a qemu virtual image rather than a VPS. Perhaps something else is going on here? Alex