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Depends on what is slow... Network activity (especially NFS mounting) can take quite a while. And it takes a bit for DHCP to setup depending on other network activity.
2 minutes may be sendmail taking time to resolve its identity (which goes away if you have it in the /etc/hosts file and it is really a static IP number).
You should be able to get it to around 1 minute (or less) though. But that assumes you have static IP numbers, not using DHCP, and have appropriate names in the /etc/hosts file.
This computer has an AMD Sempron, 1GB RAM, and no graphics card. It boots in about 40 seconds!
I think something is very wrong. Interrupt the boot, edit grub, and remove "rhgb quiet" from the kernel line. Then you can watch the boot reports and see at what stage things slow up.
To John: This machine is Intel i7 with 4 GB RAM using RHEL6.
To David: Thanks for the tips, i will try it.
Other questions:
1. How to set other service starting in the background, so the login console tty1 appears as soon as possible?
2. How to make SSH service to be highest priority (i want other users to be able to ssh in asap and leave the other services start up in the background) ?
I was having similar problems with my asus m4a89-gtd pro usb3 until about 5 minutes ago, although it wasn't taking upto 5mins. My problems were in the bios, I disabled Quick-boot, acpi, F1 stop to load setup. Put it on pnp to let linux control devices. If I ever boot wins7 it will probably be a BSOD.
Now it takes about 40 secs to boot which is slow for the money I spent on it a few years ago.
Just checked 1min 15secs from boot, login screen & menu- bar in gnome 3
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