49 seconds to boot: how do I stack up?

[stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net]

Willy Hamra wrote:
> 2009/4/24 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>:
>   
>> 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.
>>
>>     
>
> after installing many programs, i have firestarter, dkms for virtual
> box and nvidia, bind9, squid, and many others that i can think of
> seeing during the boot process (note i always remove the "quiet" and
> "splash" options from grub to get a verbose boot insted of the splash
> image) and my boot from grub till kdm kicks in is about ~15
> seconds!!!!!!! yes, even less than the advertized 20.
> CPU: 3.0 GHz hyper threading
> RAM: 1.5 GB DDR2
> mobo: intel D102GGC2
> VGA: nVidia GeForce 8500, 1 GB
>   
Is that a laptop by any chance.  I just made a last minute bid on 2 1gb 
sticks of DDR2 5300 667mhz 2.5" ram and won the bid.  You can have one 
if it will fit.  I have a friend that can use the other.  That would 
bring you up to 2gb.

Steven