Boot time has been just fine here and with many other users, since Mageia 1. And boot time has always been improved, got a little better with every release.
Did you at least take a look which step in the boot process took unusually long? Also, what does "an age" mean in particular? One minute, 5 minutes, an hour, more/less?
EDIT:
It would be good to provide at least the output of
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systemd-analyze
and
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systemd-analyze blame
What's also quite good is
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systemd-analyze plot > boot.svg
and then examine the resulting boot.svg image with e.g. Firefox to see which part takes really long.
You may need to install systemd-tools for those commands.
Here's mine for Mageia 3:
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[doktor5000@Mageia3 ~]$ systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 2844ms (kernel) + 2050ms (initramfs) + 44316ms (userspace) = 49211ms
[doktor5000@Mageia3 ~]$ systemd-analyze blame
28498ms network-up.service
4460ms ntpdate.service
2240ms mandriva-everytime.service
1224ms systemd-udev-settle.service
403ms bluetooth.service
376ms NetworkManager.service
334ms microcode_ctl.service
321ms wine.service
287ms lm_sensors.service
280ms mandi.service
250ms iptables.service
238ms sensord.service
230ms partmon.service
225ms virtualbox.service
221ms systemd-logind.service
220ms resolvconf.service
214ms upower.service
207ms udisksd.service
198ms avahi-daemon.service
198ms ip6tables.service
197ms msec.service
164ms acpid.service
163ms media-win_c.mount
161ms ksm.service
151ms hddtemp.service
148ms saslauthd.service
136ms cpupower.service
120ms libvirt-guests.service
118ms nscd.service
101ms fedora-loadmodules.service
101ms systemd-readahead-replay.service
96ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
91ms sshd.service
87ms systemd-readahead-collect.service
85ms fedora-readonly.service
75ms dev-mqueue.mount
70ms mandriva-kmsg-loglevel.service
65ms mandriva-save-dmesg.service
62ms proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount
61ms mandriva-boot-links.service
59ms systemd-user-sessions.service
47ms freshclam.service
44ms systemd-udevd.service
39ms tmp.mount
36ms dev-hugepages.mount
35ms systemd-remount-fs.service
35ms teamviewerd.service
34ms fedora-wait-storage.service
34ms udisks2.service
32ms systemd-vconsole-setup.service
30ms systemd-modules-load.service
30ms chroot_home.mount
28ms systemd-sysctl.service
27ms chroot_root.mount
25ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
24ms polkit.service
23ms ksmtuned.service
18ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
18ms home.mount
11ms rtkit-daemon.service
10ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
7ms ntpd.service