Ubuntu 7.10 on a Laptop slow startup

[Robert Spanjaard]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:35:41 -0800, Keith Clark wrote:

> I seem to be having a really slow startup time when booting Ubuntu 7.10 on
> my laptop.  I'm not sure how to go about checking why this is.  I've run
> pclos with no issues and it only takes about 30-45 seconds to bootup. 
> Ubuntu takes about 3 minutes.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

I had the same problem, until I disabled the splash screen. Don't ask me
_how_ it works, but it works. :-)

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