ubuntu boot takes a long time
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ubuntu boot takes a long time
i am using ubuntu 7.10 in a new laptop. Its is taking a very long time. I used to have 7.04 on an old laptop and it was almost as fast as a mac. I am sure something is holding up the boot process. It there anyway I can track what ubuntu is doing????
Thank you
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When you boot the first thing you see when your bios is done is the bootlader grub - but only for a second or two. Press esc to enter the menu.
The first option should be your default boot option. Something like Ubuntu 7.10 kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
Press e to edit this configuration.
Move to the line starting with kernel and press e to edit the line.
Remove the two words quite splash from that line and press enter.
Move to the last line, should be quiet, and delete the line by pressing d
Press b to boot with this modified configuration.
Your Ubuntu should now boot without the boot splash but a text log of what it's doing.
Changes are not permanent, the next time you boot the boot splash is there again.
The first option should be your default boot option. Something like Ubuntu 7.10 kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
Press e to edit this configuration.
Move to the line starting with kernel and press e to edit the line.
Remove the two words quite splash from that line and press enter.
Move to the last line, should be quiet, and delete the line by pressing d
Press b to boot with this modified configuration.
Your Ubuntu should now boot without the boot splash but a text log of what it's doing.
Changes are not permanent, the next time you boot the boot splash is there again.
thank you
Great that is exactly what I needed.
After a couple a of tries I got
1min with the splash
50sec witout the splash
The only thing I say took a long time was the unix printing cupsd ( do I need that??)
still 50 secs seem to be a LONG LONG TIME. It makes it worst when washing a black screen. It will be nice to see a loading bar.
Any tips on how to cut this time. I am writing this on a mac. After I restart I will post how much it takes.
Thank you
After a couple a of tries I got
1min with the splash
50sec witout the splash
The only thing I say took a long time was the unix printing cupsd ( do I need that??)
still 50 secs seem to be a LONG LONG TIME. It makes it worst when washing a black screen. It will be nice to see a loading bar.
Any tips on how to cut this time. I am writing this on a mac. After I restart I will post how much it takes.
Thank you
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4 minutes for WinXP, Vista is probably 6-8 minutes. Yep, unless you're using an absolutely bare bones Windows system the loading times are otherwise split between booting to the login screen, and then waiting while it loads everything into RAM. I noticed that installing Kapersky drags it out quite a bit when scanning startup processes and critical areas.
I've rarely seen Ubuntu's speed as an issue. It's usually quite brisk.
I've rarely seen Ubuntu's speed as an issue. It's usually quite brisk.
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I personaly don't use the CUPS Daemon because I don't have a printer but I leave it installed because I tend to save alot of openoffice documents to PDFs using a postscript printer.
Also, a note about load times: If your loading in under a minute, thats great. My desktop-station, loaded with dev. servers, takes about the same time. However, why does it really matter when you can leave the machine on? You hardly ever really need to restart! If you update the X-Server just do a Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and restart the service!
Note: I'm an AppArmour user as-well, so i'm sure that has got to add some time to the load.
Also, a note about load times: If your loading in under a minute, thats great. My desktop-station, loaded with dev. servers, takes about the same time. However, why does it really matter when you can leave the machine on? You hardly ever really need to restart! If you update the X-Server just do a Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and restart the service!
Note: I'm an AppArmour user as-well, so i'm sure that has got to add some time to the load.
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I recently switched from my Vista 1.6gz PentiumM, 1gb RAM laptop to Ubuntu and my load time shot through the roof. Ubuntu sits at a black screen for about 2-3 minutes before finally hitting the login screen. Before with Vista the boot time wasn't spectacular but it was about a minute.
Windows for the win? Eeek.
//off topic Vista laptop battery life was 3-4 hours. I only get 2 hours using Ubuntu after with no programs running?
Windows for the win? Eeek.
//off topic Vista laptop battery life was 3-4 hours. I only get 2 hours using Ubuntu after with no programs running?
Re: thank you
You could try https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InitNGyacahuma wrote:Any tips on how to cut this time.
It took forever?yacahuma wrote:I am writing this on a mac. After I restart I will post how much it takes.
Mac boot time
On my I mac 20" it take 21 sec from pushing the on button to loggin screen. That is fast.
I search a bit and found bootchart . I installed it and it produced this graph
http://www.stccorp.net/gutsy-20071208-1.png
Also it seems that you can run stuff in parallell but is not that easy to do. Maybe that is what Mac is doing . I wonder why Ubuntu does not do the same thing.
Any ideas on the graph???
I search a bit and found bootchart . I installed it and it produced this graph
http://www.stccorp.net/gutsy-20071208-1.png
Also it seems that you can run stuff in parallell but is not that easy to do. Maybe that is what Mac is doing . I wonder why Ubuntu does not do the same thing.
Any ideas on the graph???
I have 32s on kubuntu 7.10 (with vmware, apache, mysql)
And there is a faster way to boot, is is called initNG (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initng)
And there is a faster way to boot, is is called initNG (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initng)
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