boottime increased again

[MadMan2k]

Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 16:57 +0100, MadMan2k wrote:
> 
>> A warm boot indeed lowered the boot time by about 10-15 seconds.
>> But I dont have a SCSI card; yust a SATA controller and that should be 
>> integrated in the Southbridge. (Nforce2 400)
>> Anyway I did several reboots and my lowest was 55s.
>> I think the range of 30s is quite wide...
>>
> Nothing we can do about that!  It's your hardware that's taking its time
> to warm up.  SCSI is *so* 1980s, m'kay :)
> 
> Scott
but there is something one could do about it - at least windows can.
I did some simple stopwatch comparisions:

Time from grub to...

...Windows
    Desktop shows up: 28s
    Firefox shows up: 48s

...Ubuntu
    Desktop shows up: 100s
    Firefox shows up: 109s

this was by no mean made in a scientific envoirbent and I started 
firefox by hand and not with autostart, but I think the dimensons speak 
for themselves.

M2k