Hi Tom, Yes, I think its the same bug that causes troubles for you - I've left a comment to re-open it. What I find a bit alarming is, that the iscsi init-script was shipped by Fedora. (Although for some reason nobody else seems to be affected) As anaconda depends on the iscsi packages (... yeah ..), the only solution I found was to just delete the script from /etc/initd/iscsi* - now my system starts up fast again. Thanks, Clemens

Hmm, the more I think about it, the more I think its actually a systemd bug. Updating to updates-testing didn't help unfourtunatly. In /var/boot/boot.log the following problem is reported, which seems to actually delay the boot: Failed to start LSB: Starts and stops login and scanning of iSCSI devices. [FAILED] See 'systemctl status iscsi.service' for details. however, status tells me everything went fine, and iscsi is running: $ systemctl status iscsi.service iscsi.service - LSB: Starts and stops login and scanning of iSCSI devices. Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/iscsi) Active: active (exited) since Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:17:58 +0100; 18s ago Process: 1731 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/iscsi start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/iscsi.service Any idea what could be the problem? Having to wait 2-5min for the machine to boot is more annoying than one would expect ;) Thanks, Clemens