i am having problems with a slow boot up when i start my computer. It takes about 3 to 4 mins to load up does anybody know what it could be thats causing that? and how do you go about fixing it? Im using a toshiba netbook nb305, with a intel atom processor
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I have Windows 7 on my Dell Xps laptop, and I want to install Ubuntu or Fedora as a dual-boot. Will that cause my system to slow down?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to upgrad from kernel 2.6.32.9 to 2.6.34.3 and I'm having problems.The boot finished with that old gem "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempting to kill init !"I suspect that it's something to do with my PATA IDE driver because there have been kernel changes in this area.My problem is all the boot messages scroll off the top of the screen before I can read them and it's no use saying look at dmesg or /var/log/messages because the root fs isn't there - another reason why I think it's to do with the drivers.So my question is, is there some way I can slow down the boot process so that I have a chance of reading the messages ?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI wonder and hence ask you whether there is a difference in boot time between two systems when just one of them features grub at the boot stage.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am running Fedora 11 and recently, it has been taking longer and longer to boot up. The Fedora 11 Status bar creeps along ever so slowly till eventually I will receive a login screen. I timed it at about 3 - 5 minutes from turning on the computer till I get a log in prompt.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've been a long time Windows user, but I've started a small firm and because of lack of funds, I've decided to install Ubuntu on my company's PCs.I have 8 PCs in total - 6 of them with Intel CPUs, and the last two with AMD CPUs. I bought the extra two computers because I've managed to find an extra two people to work at my company, and AMD-based PCs are cheaper so I've decided to buy them instead of Intel.Long-story short, I've installed Ubuntu 9.10 and boot time takes about half-an-hour. After the computers finally boot, USB hardware doesn't work at all. I was forced to buy PS/2 keyboards & mice and they both work fine after the PCs boot.I don't know what's causing this delay.I've enabled Cool 'n Quiet from BIOS.I've tried several instructions like editing the /etc/modules file.I've installed cpufreqd, tried to configure it, but it didn't work.I've check the CPU stats and my CPUs are running at 800MHz. I can't believe nobody managed to fix the 800MHz problem as I've noticed it's quite common among AMD Ubuntu users. I think I've tried almost anything that I've found on this forum.I can't keep asking my employees not to reboot their PCs. Both Chrome/Firefox crash a lot on Ubuntu so they're forced to restart their computers.The computer specs are: AMD Athlon II X2 240 dual-core @ 2.800MHz, 2GB RAM, 500GB HDD, etc.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI've got two laptops running Ubuntu. Both have had Lucid installed from the live cd. I have upgraded one of them to Maverick. Both distributions are running great after they boot up, but I haven't experienced any faster boot times with either distibution. Both boot to Bios and then the screen goes black with a blinking cursor in upper left corner of the screen. The black screen remains for 30 to 45 seconds and then I get the Ubuntu splash screen for maybe 5 seconds, and then desktop. Why am I not seeing faster boot times? I realize 45 to 60 seconds is good compared to other os's, but I anticipated much faster boot times. Shut down on the other hand is quite fast at maybe 5 to 10 seconds. Does anyone else get this black screen on boot? Seems like wasted time cause I can't tell what's going on during the time there is a black screen. This is not a real big deal breaker, as I don't reboot very often, but I just wonder why bootup isn't faster.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have good experience in microsoft enviroment, now tiring to use linux, i tried Ubuntu 9.10, OpenSuse on different computers bur there is same big problem: Very slow download speed compared to microsoft.same file at same time downloaded by microsoft winxp toke incomparable short time. for example file 5.5MB attached to e-mail on Yahoo toke ~1minute to download on winxp computer,same file at same computer but with Ubuntu takes more thane 30minutes!
View 3 Replies View RelatedAfter keying in my passwort at the login, it takes exactly 26sec until the Desktop is ready. I have checked bootchart and it seems that the udisk-daemon is blocking the boot process for some reason. I have tried different disks, different memory, without dvd...always the same problem.
Last thing I did, was to put in the disk into another pc, different mainboard different proc and voila, it boots very quickly.
I suspect this to be due to my mainboard or proc.
Mainboard ASUS M4A78-E
AMD Athlon 7750 Dual-Core Processor
2x2GB DDR
Radeon HD 3300 Graphics
WDC WD5001AALS-0 500GB (System)
Seagate ST31000333AS 1TB(Backup)
I have a Dell Workstation T3400, dual core 2.6Ghz CPU. Recently I upgraded UBUNTU from 9.10 to 10.04. After the upgrade, it takes long time to boot up. First shows a blinking hyphen, then a screens with options to enter configuration utility appears. Then says GRUB loading but again blinking hyphen stays for almost a minute. Finally, I get the log in screen after about 2 minutes.... I checked some other related posts but could not find any solution that worked for me.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've been noticing that my ubuntu 10.04 takes too long to boot lately, and now that I've upgraded to 10.10 and had the same issue, I took few minutes to investigate. from what I understand from the log files, it looks like my hard drive takes too long to mount, actually 40+ seconds to mount...
below is the section I mentioned above from my messages log:
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Oct 22 08:43:22 ubuntu kernel: [ 2.076608] EXT4-fs (sda5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Oct 22 08:43:22 ubuntu kernel: [ 49.537272] Adding 2096444k swap on /dev/sda8. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2096444k
I'm running 10.10 on an IBM Thinkpad R60 with 3GB RAM. I did a clean install of 9.10 and 10.04, and recently upgraded to 10.10. With all three, I'm noticing mething rather strange; after passing the PC's BIOS screen, I get a flashing cursor for about 20-30 seconds before Ubuntu starts booting. When I did the clean installs, I completely erased the hard drive, so I'm not sure what's causing it. The hard drive activity light is on when this happens, as well. It's very strange, as I have an old Dell Dimension 4550 with a slower hard drive and less RAM than the Thinkpad...yet it boots up faster, with no flashing cursor.
View 9 Replies View Relatedmy ubuntu wait about 25 seconds on bootdmesg:
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[ 0.815389] udev[90]: starting version 163
[ 0.904058] sky2: driver version 1.28
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I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on an older PC (for some reason 10+ locks it up) and it takes a really long time for it to boot up. After the motherboard screen passes, I see the blinking cursor on the screen like it's loading, but it takes about five minutes until it finally boots to the OS. This isn't native to Ubuntu, it did the same thing with Mint. The PC was never this slow to boot up before, but I hadn't used it in about a year. Originally, I had WinXP and Ubuntu on it and it always started up pretty quick. Would this be a hardware problem or something else?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just installed Ubuntu 10.04 on an external hard disk. It boots very very slow. I get a black screen for about 2 minutes, with the led of the HDD regularly blinking. The hard disk is OK, so it's type isn't the issue here. Is there anything I can do about it?
I can't (don't want to) install it on my main hard disk, since I already have Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows 7 installed there and it's getting a bit too crowded.
I have a desktop PC with an Intel 3.2 Ghz Pentium 4 CPU. 1.5 Gb of RAM, and 2 - 200 Gb Seagate HDD (1 is Windows XP only, the other is NTFS and Ubuntu partitions). It is a dual boot system using GRUB, with Windows XP the first item on the menu.lst file, and the latest Ubuntu 9.10 kernel and previous kernels the following items.
My problems are twofold since I upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04 to 9.10 of Ubuntu. First extremely slow boot to Ubuntu (multiple minutes to get to the login screen and then almost the same after login). Over all it may take up to 5 minute to get to a usable Ubuntu running. Once I'm in to Ubuntu, things seem to be okay.
Second problem is when I reboot with the "restart" from the panel, the only way I can reboot to either Ubuntu or Windows XP is to physically turn off the power switch on the back of the computer. If I don't do this the machine never restarts it just tries to start and doesn't ever get to grub start up. After powering off, and then back on the normal reboot, with grub starting and giving the menu.lst options works fine.
When booting a fresh install of Karmic 9.10 grub grumbles quite a bit. I do have 2 600gb sata drives with various partitions but never have the older grubs taken a solid 15 seconds to sort out the drives before launching.
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy 9.01 worked fine since upgrading to 10.04 i find the boot process hangs for about 30 secs displaying
'boot from (hd0,0)
Starting up'
I have googled this problem and the only thing i could find is that disconnection the dvd drives sorts it! but i cannot find a workaround.
I recently upgraded kubuntu from 10.04 to 10.10 Slower boot time First,systen will wait a few seconds on tty1 after a few seconds then jump to the login screen Then wait for a few seconds to type When I waiting the hard drive do not do anything My hardware is lenovo r400 Intel (R) Core (TM) 2 Duo CPU P8700@2.53GHz. RAM 4G Before the upgrade are quite fast boo Become like this after the upgrade
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My boot time is extremely slow on ubuntu 10.10, on the order of 5 or so minutes. I've attached my var/log/bootchart
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've had Ubuntu for about 8 months now, and haven't really had any serious problems with it, or problems I couldn't find a solution for. This one is kind of weird and is really driving me crazy.There were two Seagate Barracuda's in my computer, and I added a third a couple days ago. At first, I was getting a grub 22 error, because they were in the wrong sata socket order, but now they're all in the order they were before, save for the third which is in SATA port 3. After the GRUB2 display, I receive a blinking cursor on a black screen. I can type whatever I want into it and nothing happens, and if I wait a few minutes it will eventually show a graphical login screen, then displays an exception and then boots to the graphical plymouth screen. Here's a section from my kern.log that shows the bit the login screen displays as well as the rest of the errors.
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scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST31000528AS CC38 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
Jan 5 20:34:07 klendathu kernel: [ 16.712112] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
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my laptop's boot speed has been tremendously dropped (approximately from 30 secs to 3-4 minutes) after I've upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04.What do you recommend me to check in order to get back my lost time?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have two versions of Natty that I'm running on my EeePC 900. Both are clean installs. As they're both installed on removable flash drives, I expect a certain degree of sluggishness. One installation is the full version with Unity. It boots in about 25 seconds or so, which is slower than Lucid on the same machine, but not too bad.
The other installation was a command-line install with Openbox and GDM for logging in. You'd think this would be quicker, but it's taking a full minute to boot. When it gets to the GDM login screen, I can't see the mouse pointer. If I move the mouse into the lower right-hand corner, I can see the invisible pointer hover over the shutdown button and then I can select it. Alternatively, if I press return (to select my login) and then move the mouse vigorously, a pointer will eventually appear, but it's a large X and not the standard pointer.
I've just finished setting up a RAID 1 on my system. Everything seems to be okay, but I have a very slow boot time. It takes about three minutes between the time I select Ubuntu from GRUB and the time I get to the login screen.
I found this really neat program called bootchart which graphically displays your boot process.
This is my first boot (after installing bootchart). I'm not an expert at reading these, but it appears there are two things holding up the boot, cdrom_id and md_0_resync. I tried unplugging my CD drive SATA cable, and this is the new boot image.
It's faster, but it still takes about a minute, which seems pretty slow on this system. The md0 RAID device is my main filesystem. Is it true that it needs to get resynced on each boot?
I'm not sure how to diagnose my CD drive issue. The model is a NEC ND-3550A DVD RW drive. I should also note that there's a quick error message at startup about the CD rom. It's too quick for me to read it, just one line on a black screen saying "error: cdrom something something".
I swapped out the hard drive on my laptop for a bigger one and put Kubuntu 10.10 on it back in March. The one big complaint I have is that it has a ridiculously slow boot time in comparison to Ubuntu 10.04. I have since installed most of the Gnome Ubuntu desktop through the repos and switched from kdm to gdm but I still have this relatively long period of blank screen with cursor until it goes straight to the gdm. The plymouth boot screen won't show at all. Is there a relatively simple fix for this?
I should add that I am not interested in updating to Natty. I have a limited bandwith I can use and a lot of accumulated software through the repos that would require several gigabytes of reinstall.
when boot is done and switched to X11 I get major time delays due to graphic init (as far as I can tell).
Here is the relevant part from Xorg.0.log:
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63.420] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found
[ 63.420] (II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (/dev/input/mouse0)
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I just recently upgraded my kubuntu install from karmic to lucid and now it takes about 10-15 minutes to boot. Directly after the upgrade it was pretty slow already, but it got worse every day from then. The karmic version was a wubi install I moved to a dedicated partition using lvpm. Here are the results from the bootinfoscript code...
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am getting a much slower boot with the 10.04 upgrade. After choosing which partition to use I get the blinking white cursor in the upper left hand corner and the "Boot from (hd0,4) ext 3..." sits there for a while before coming to the log in screen. There have been quite a few posts about this, a lot of people are saying disabling the floppy drive in the BIOS has worked for them. I don't have a floppy drive on my laptop.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI just installed ubuntu 10.4 on my new laptop and when it boots up there is no splash screen (All I see is a blinking cursor) and it takes about 28 seconds to boot up... I do have all the graphic stuff working...
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy boot time seems to be relatively slow & looking through the log file I notice that "ppdev: user-space parallel port driver" takes about 25 seconds to load.Is this normal/necessary to load? My laptop is a toshiba satellite pro running 10.04.
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