Ubuntu 7.10 on a Laptop slow startup

[Robert Spanjaard]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:05:57 +0100, Robert Spanjaard wrote:

> 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. :-)

Just installed bootchart to take a look myself. I guess the results speak 
for themselves:

http://www.arumes.com/temp/gutsy-20071228-1.png
http://www.arumes.com/temp/gutsy-20071228-2.png

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Robert                                                http://www.arumes.com