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Ubuntu 7.10 Slow start up

How much memory?

reply to Rocketbob
I did the same thing on mine and it's very slow to start. Mine is a HP 1.6ghz with 2gb ram.

reply to Rocketbob
You need to find out what exactly is slow. This is hard because of the Ubuntu splash screen. You can edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file to get rid of this.
Find lines like the following

title Ubuntu Linux stock kernel (2.6.15-23-386)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic ro root=/dev/sda6 quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic

and remove the options "quiet" and "splash"

Then reboot and watch where the boot spends most of its time.
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I have three Gutsy installs tht take ~60 seconds from power button to desktop.
I've also got a Gutsy Xubuntu laptop I'm giving to my brother that only take ~2 minutes.
I'd suggest trying another complete install. On the laptop I had two bad Gutsy installs followed by a third Gutsy install that runs like a dream (on this hardware.)

reply to donoreo
512 MB memory 1.0 ghz processor

reply to Rocketbob
if it isn't hardware issues you can try installing bum (boot-up manager $sudo apt-get install bum) and turn off all of those services that you don't need. The box that I just build was taking about 2 minutes from boot up to login , after turning off most of the stuff there it when down to 30 sec.
you can follow either of these two HOW-TOs:

»ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=89491

»www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1···4,00.asp

have fun!

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reply to Rocketbob
That sounds like a lot of time to me...something must be b0rked.

My old Gateway E-3400 (P3-800, 128M ram) from a cold boot power-on to the logon screen is about 30-40 secs using Xubuntu 7.10.

Which is about the same time my somewhat better Dell GX150 P3-1Ghz w/ 512 ram gets to the login screen running XPpro.

Yay *nix for old computers.

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reply to kleeman

I tried to save the menu.lst in grub but are not allowed. I am the admin on Ubuntu, and a total beginner. What shall I do to save the file?

Thanks, that worked!
I am down from 3 minutes to 45 sec. Nice!

As a heads up, the true Administrative account in Linux is root. All administrative functions have to be performed by root. At the command line, to have the command run as root, you start the command off with sudo.
If you want to have a graphical way of entering the password, prefix the command with gksudo. This will bring up a box that will ask for your administrative password.
This is a security feature. If you where to download a virus or malware, it would be unable to do any harm to the system unless someone who had the administrative password intentionally gave it permission to do so.
In Ubuntu the root password is always the same as the user that is setup during the initial install. In pretty much every other version of Linux, the root account is 100% separate from any other user, and the root password does not necessarily match any other user's password.
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reply to Rocketbob
Thanks i went from 3m to 38 sek