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reply to Rocketbob

Re: Ubuntu 7.10 Slow start up

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 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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