New to linux questions

[Steve Flynn]

On Jan 10, 2008 7:29 PM, Michael Sears <misears at insightbb.com> wrote:
> More wonky things afoot.  It has always taken a long time (5-6minutes)
> to load to the desktop from startup, but today hit close to 10 minutes.
> This seems really wierd to me since I really haven't put much on the
> Hard drive.  My intermitant sound gremlin is back and now there is no
> sound again. (ATI IXP onboard sound).

You may find a huge improvement in the boot up time if you remove the
"splash" from the boot entry you're using. For example, and because
I'm essentially lazy this is taken from a blog posting:

1. Changing Boot Parameters Temporarily

Generally, this is used when you want to try a parameter change to see
it is beneficial to your system. When the PC boots up, you will see
the Grub countdown, which is set to 3 seconds by default. Press "Esc"
to intercept this countdown and go enter a Grub menu. Then

    * Press 'e' to start editing.
    * Scroll down to the "kernel..." line. The is the line that tells
Grub which kernel to boot with and the parameters to be passed to the
kernel when it boots are placed at the end of this line.
    * Press 'e' again to edit this line.
    * Move to the end of the line. You will see any existing
parameters and can add other new parameters to the end.
    * Parameters are separated by spaces and are mostly either a
single word (e.g. nolapic), or an equation (e.g. acpi=off).
    * Once you have added the parameter to the end of the line, press
Enter to accept the editing. IN your case you want to remove "splash"
from the kernel line
    * Then press 'b' to boot using that kernel and those parameters.

Basically, there is a bug in usplash which causes it to run at 100%
cpu utilisation on some machines. Remove it and 2 minute boot times
become something in the region of 25 seconds.

If you wish to make this permanent, you can "sudo vi
/boot/grub/menu.lst" and edit the entry to remove "splash"

-- 
Steve
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