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devinmcelheran 03-09-2009 01:29 PM
Boot is Fairly Slow In Hardy
 
When I boot up, it takes a considerable amount of time to get to the login, upwards of a minutes and a half, maybe two minutes or more, is there any way I can fix this? With XP, which I hate to compare to, my boot time was maybe thirty seconds. Can any one help me?

Note: I'm a pretty big noob, so explain slow and thorough please and thank you.

repo 03-09-2009 01:40 PM
When the computer boots, look where it stalls
or
take a look in
dmesg
or enable bootlog
Code:
sudo gedit /etc/default/bootlogd
# Run bootlogd at startup ?
BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=No
set this to yes

devinmcelheran 03-09-2009 01:47 PM
Okay, I'll do that when I get home, because I'm at school right now, and I'll have to get back to you tomorrow because I don't have internet access at home.

repo 03-09-2009 01:55 PM
Quote:
because I don't have internet access at home.
probably an issue with dhcp, boot will halt until dhcp has finished.

devinmcelheran 03-10-2009 01:15 PM
I have bootlog enabled, so what do I do now? And my not having a connection at home is just that I don't have internet, nothing wrong with my laptop.

repo 03-10-2009 01:39 PM
While you boot, look at the messages on the screen and look where the boot stalls.
Or look in /var/log/boot

devinmcelheran 03-11-2009 09:05 AM
What will the boot log show? and I'm guessing you'd like me to post it right?

Matey 03-11-2009 09:12 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by repo (Post 3469954)
probably an issue with dhcp, boot will halt until dhcp has finished.
Good answer, I agree.

Also is this a dual boot machine? some times if you install diskless partition for linux it takes longer to setup the OS because it has to create and simulate the real files and folders.

devinmcelheran 03-11-2009 09:27 AM
It only has Ubuntu 8.04 on it. And what is dhcp, isn't it something to do with networking? But, I only have Ubuntu on it, and it was never so slow before, it should boot fairly quick, I have a half gb of ram and a 1.7 ghz processor. I've never seen it so slow.

GraysonPeddie 03-11-2009 12:09 PM
Yes. DHCP is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. It automatically gives out IP addresses within a specific range (like 192.168.20.11 to 192.168.20.20, for example).

repo 03-11-2009 12:38 PM
Quote:
While you boot, look at the messages on the screen and look where the boot stalls.
Did you looked at the screen?

devinmcelheran 03-11-2009 01:15 PM
I think it slowed down at the "gathering files needed to boot" or something along those lines. But I've now noticed an over declne in system speed, and I don't know why.

Maligree 03-11-2009 02:27 PM
bootchart is a pretty nice tool.

devinmcelheran 03-12-2009 01:37 PM
I watched the text as I booted, and the two big time takers were "reading files needed to boot" and "waiting for root files system". Is there any way I can speed this up?

devinmcelheran 03-14-2009 09:27 PM
1 Attachment(s)
This is my boot chart, I'm not sure how to read it, but if anyone can help me it'd be nice.


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