49 seconds to boot: how do I stack up?

[Steven Vollom]

On Friday 24 April 2009 02:22:19 pm Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I have heard that Ubuntu 9.04 has super-fast boots, on the order of
> 20-30 seconds. My Dell Inspiron (2 GHz processor, 2 GiB
>  RAM) boots in 49 seconds, only three seconds faster than a six-month
> old Hardy install on the same hardware. Was Kubuntu's boot not
> improved as Ubuntu's, do I have a misconfiguration? How do other
> Kubuntu user's boot times compare?
>
> Note that I did profile the boot process after the second boot, after
> I had installed my applications. I did not test the boot time before
> profiling, but the profile did seem to take a long time.
>
> --
> Dotan Cohen
>
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I still have problems with the nVidia card.  It took 15 minutes to get the 
system booted again and working.  After a while, it was struggling with 
installing the graphics and I had to go back to default graphic settings.  
When I booted again, I changed them to the correct drivers and booted again.  
This time it finally booted to a screen, but I noticed that it settled with the 
170 nVidia Drivers instead of the 180 that it was supposed to use.  I still 
have good video, but the 180 drivers, when installed properly are much better 
in quality.

So I can't give you any decent input as to boot up time, other than you can be 
grateful you don't have mine.

Cordially,

Steven