Boot is Fairly Slow In Hardy

devinmcelheran · 03-09-2009, 01:29 PM

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

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

This is my boot chart, I'm not sure how to read it, but if anyone can help me it'd be nice.