What's YOUR boot-time?

Hi all,

(I don't know if this is already been done, so just PM me, and delete this thread if it does exist.)

So, what's your boot-time with Ubuntu?

I saw this guy on Youtube today who booted Ubuntu and firefox in about 20 seconds. This made me think about my own booting-time, and yours of course! I haven't checked mine yet, but will do that later today.

Update: Okay, my time is 1 min 21 sec :shock:

Ready, steady, post!

 

40 seconds with Linux4one.

 

Jeez! I'm slow! Any ideas on how i can speed it up?

edit: Using 9.04 Beta btw, and using A150.

 

Jaunty UNR +/- 25sec...

 

Using the latest test version of kuki, 12 seconds, according to bootchart (to login screen).

 

My god! How can i improve my time? New kernel maybe?

 

51 sec from power button touching to full desktop, including wifi WAP connection; with Ubuntu Jaunti Beta, daily updates and Sickboy latest kernel (0.7), boot option "elevator=deadline" in "menu.lst" in a "ext2" filesystem, automatic login, running from USB memory pen without swap (still didn't took time to swap to SSD, but hope it will be faster). Still no major tricks.

 

Okay, using stopwatch to measure and latest kuki pre-release 1.6: 19 seconds from pressing power on until homepage loads in firefox (using ssd formatted ext2, 1gb ram, w/swap). Turning off the kuki linux splash screen shaves off another 2 secs.

 

Hmm, i think i gonna use a couple days shaving some seconds from my time, and trust me, i'm not giving up until i'm under 1 minute!

 

It also depends on how much ram you have installed. With my 512 mb ram and the kuki kernel I had boot times around 40 seconds to desktop with Ubuntu based distros. People with 1 gb ram or 1.5 have mentioned boot times between 15-25 seconds.

 

Yeah i have the A150 with 1GB RAM. I'm currently running Ubuntu 9.04 Beta. Will the Kuki or Sickboy-kernel work with 9.04?

 

I don't know. I now have the D150 model and the kuki kernel doesn't work for me. I got an initramfs (?) boot error after installation.

 

About 1 minute to all fully loaded desktop.

From pressing the powerbutton
to BIOS 5 sec
to login screen 33 sec
to fully loaded desktop (must login with user/pass) ~60 sec

My boot time got a bit longer after some installations and tweaks (including loading Firefox profile to RAM), but overall I'm pretty happy with it.

I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 with Sickboy's kernel.

 

I boot to a textmode login prompt. From the time I hit the enter key to select the filesystem to boot from my grub menu, it takes about 23 sec to get to the login prompt with Sickboy's kernel. In the process, I mount a total of nine partitions (Boot, Home, Cambridge-1, Cambridge-2, Leonidas(ext4), Leonidas-ext3, Jaunty-1, Jaunty-2, and Crunchbang), which slows things down a little bit. Stock Fedora nad Ubuntu kernels are coming in at around 30 sec.

 

Right now i'm at about 45 sec from power on to login, and total time it takes from power on to the desktop is about 1 min 10 sec.

Some ideas on how i can improve it?

 

1. Turn off unneeded services
2. Switch kernels

 

I've switched of un-needed services and stuff, but will the kernels for 8.10 work on 9.04? It seems that nobody knows yet, so i'm not trying it before somebody else does :lol:

 

To which 8.10 kernels are you referring? I've been running the 9.04 development branch with Sickboy's kernels, if that helps.

 

Okay, so i guess the sickboy-kernel will work for me as well then.

 

Yes, kernels in Ubuntu aren't tied to a single version and thus you may more or less freely swap kernels between different versions. Sickboy's kernels work just fine in either 8.10 or 9.04, but you can get even greater performance increase by switching from 8.10 to 9.04 (probably you'll get under 1min total boot time without any tweaks).

PS: I'm now down to 36,5sec from power button to wifi and full desktop on the 8Gb SSD with 9.04 RC, Iupi!