Ubuntu 7.10 on a Laptop slow startup

[NoOp]

On 12/27/2007 10:58 AM, Steve Flynn wrote:
> On Dec 27, 2007 6:35 PM, Keith Clark <keithclark1966 at rogers.com> 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.
> 
> Quite often slow boots are the symptom of timeouts and DHCP/DNS
> lookups from routers when that informations is superfluous.
> 
> Before digging into this with any great gusto, you could try
> installing bootchart and analysing or posting links to the resulting
> png files it produces - these will show you exactly where the delays
> are occurring in your machine.
> 

I've always found issues with bootchart:

1. It causes the system to boot slower (due to creating the chart)
2. I've never been able to interpret just what it is showing. Nice
graphic, but can't view much as it's such a large png and there doesn't
seem to be any help/explanation as to what you are looking at.

Take http://www.arumes.com/temp/gutsy-20071228-2.png for example; what
exactly does that png show? How do you read it?
http://www.arumes.com/temp/gutsy-20071228-1.png seems to be somewhat
better, but again, how do you read it and determine what is the cause of
the slow startup?

IMHO asking someone to install bootchart doesn't help much unless you
provide details as to what they should be looking for in the bootchart.