Gutsy speed

[Chris Jones]

> I'm also interested in some speed improvements. My ubuntu laptop needs 
> approximately 5 mins to boot. It is a Core 2 Duo 1.83GHz with 2GB ram, 
> so it is very similar to your system. Even my much older desktop system 
> (P4 3.2GHz) boots much faster. The first part of the boot sequence 
> (where the splash screen with the progress bar is shown) is reasonable 
> fast, but once X comes up, I have to wait several minutes before my 
> gnome desktop appears. During that time, I only see a light brown 
> background color.

It sounds like you have something configured to start up in your gnome 
session, that is taking the time. This is nothing to do with boot up.

So I would start by taking at a look at your Session configuration and 
see if there is something in that is taking all the time ?

Chris