You are here: Home › Personal › My Blog › Fedora 15 Boot Optimization (from 45 to 26 seconds) If you want to run Fedora 15 on a slow spinning disk, then you have to customize it a bit, to get fast boot times. First we choose a manual disk layout and use primary partitions and format them with ext4. In my case this results in: sda1 ext4 /boot sda2 swap sda3 ext4 / After the first boot, setup of the