I've been reading as much as I can about this problem, but no fixes seem to work for me.

My boot time, according to bootchart, is just under 2 minutes (1:53.20). Far, far from the 10 secs.

Of course, with my intel graphics, just booting is a success. I had to follow Workaround A from here to get it to boot in the first place.

I've tried to upgrade to the mainline kernel, but there was no improvement in boot time.

I've heard that disabling the floppy in bios has worked wonders, but my bios has no floppy option to begin with.

What can I do to speed things up?