Sluggish Boot

[jbaerbock]

Well I love Mint but when I clocked Mint from Grub to desktop readyness I got 1 minute and 7 seconds. Now in my experience that seems very slow. I have an HP zv6000 with 512 ram and AMD64 processor. XP boots faster and seems snappier. I would like Mint to boot fast and be snappy. I have heard of people booting distros in 30 seconds etc...

Are there any tweaks I can do to make it boot faster? I know Ubuntu boots somewhat faster even after loading things on it. I have been thinking about going XFCE but I want some candy and it has not much compared to WinXP or Gnome/KDE. So please help.

[newW2]

Some people have fixed these problems adding irqpoll to boot menu list. Look here:
http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3751
And there are tweaks / how-to links listed on the forum here:
http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2164
Blogger had that latest link to the how to:
http://www.xsol.se/?p=26
Good luck

[red-e-made]

Well I love Mint but when I clocked Mint from Grub to desktop readyness I got 1 minute and 7 seconds. Now in my experience that seems very slow. I have an HP zv6000 with 512 ram and AMD64 processor.

I'm using an HP nx7300 and I managed to find a strange little trick that cut my boot time from 1:51 to 0:45.

Yes, going to Administration>Services and unchecking all the unnecessary stuff is a good first step.

But I also found that when I turn on my machine, if I turn on the wireless button when the Mint logo first appears, the status bar zips straight across. If I wait for Mint to fully load before turning on wireless, the boot is slower. I see that built-in wireless is optional for the HP zv6000. Whether you have this or not, if there's a way for you to turn on your wireless receiver when you see the Mint logo first appear at start-up, this may help.

I have no idea why this works, and I don't care. I just know it does. Maybe it could help you, too.