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the8thstar
May 4th, 2009, 09:27 PM
Hello all,

I am interested to know what your boot times are.

I use two PCs right now.

PC 1 is a desktop P4 2.4GHz with 768Mb or RAM and an ATI Radeon 9500 graphic card with 128Mb onboard.

PC 2 is the laptop in the sig.

On PC 1, Windows XP boots in 1m30s and Ubuntu Jaunty boots in 55 seconds.

On PC 2, Jaunty boots in 55 seconds and Windows 7 boots in 55s too.


What about you?
Kareeser
May 4th, 2009, 09:30 PM
the8thstar, are you using ext4, or ext3?

My production computer, Intel 630 3 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 8800GT = 21 seconds from GRUB menu*

* I assume that's how we're counting, since that's how it's counted in that amazing "11 second boot" youtube video...
Hyper Tails
May 4th, 2009, 10:03 PM
I use ext4 on my primary pc
skymera
May 4th, 2009, 10:05 PM
Bootchart says 11 seconds.

Intel Core2Quad Q6600
4GB XMS2 800MHz
ATi 4870 OC 512MB
WD Raptor 10,000 RPM 16MB
Eviltechie
May 4th, 2009, 10:19 PM
60 seconds from power button to desktop. That includes a bunch of bios screens and the 10 seconds for grub to auto chose linux.
sports fan Matt
May 4th, 2009, 10:26 PM
22, 23 seconds from grub using auto login and ext3...
dragos240
May 4th, 2009, 10:35 PM
45 seconds on my netbook. On intrepid.
Muffinabus
May 4th, 2009, 11:51 PM
About 20 seconds after GRUB, EXT4.
mamamia88
May 4th, 2009, 11:51 PM
31 seconds
Eisenwinter
May 4th, 2009, 11:53 PM
About 15 - 20 seconds, because of udev and network detection.
OutOfReach
May 5th, 2009, 12:00 AM
17 seconds on the machine in my sig, according to bootchart.
The SATA drivers take a little long to load, that's why the time isn't lower.
garythegoth
May 5th, 2009, 12:19 AM
About 20 seconds from a cold boot to login screen. But that is with using Startup Manager to turn the GRUB countdown off...
meho_r
May 5th, 2009, 12:24 AM
20 seconds from GRUB to login screen. Another 20 from login screen to usable desktop (with Gnome-Do, Parcellite, Guake, Dropbox in start-up apps, plus Tomboy, Tracker and Desklet which load last). Configuration: AMD Athlon 3800+ 2,4 GHz, 3GB of RAM.
Stupendoussteve
May 5th, 2009, 12:34 AM
In beta my laptop was 18 seconds, now it's about 20.
richg
May 5th, 2009, 04:40 AM
Around twenty to thirty minutes. Usually closer to twenty minutes. Depends on when I get out of bed and wander into the kitchen for coffee.

Rich
rudenko_ruslan
May 5th, 2009, 04:45 AM
21 seconds.
the8thstar
May 5th, 2009, 06:21 AM
Hello all,

I am interested to know what your boot times are.

I use two PCs right now.

PC 1 is a desktop P4 2.4GHz with 768Mb or RAM and an ATI Radeon 9500 graphic card with 128Mb onboard.

PC 2 is the laptop in the sig.

On PC 1, Windows XP boots in 1m30s and Ubuntu Jaunty boots in 55 seconds.

On PC 2, Jaunty boots in 55 seconds and Windows 7 boots in 55s too.


What about you?

Both PCs are on EXT4.
b@sh_n3rd
May 5th, 2009, 07:01 AM
According to bootchart, my PC boots in 31.11s
/boot;/home and / are XFS
DELL OptiPlex GXa (11yrs :D)
Intel Pentium II 266MHz (Klamath)
386MiB RAM
15.0GB HDD
I think it would have been faster if 3D Acceleration was enabled. This allowed the PC to boot fast on XP too but i'm not sure whether Jaunty or XP was faster...maybe Jaunty as winblows gets stuffed once too often...:D
LightB
May 5th, 2009, 07:08 AM
Oh about 15 nanoseconds and you can't prove it doesn't.
kerry_s
May 5th, 2009, 07:22 AM
about 5 secs, i use suspend, turning the computer on just wakes it up. :lolflag:
b@sh_n3rd
May 5th, 2009, 07:57 AM
about 5 secs, i use suspend, turning the computer on just wakes it up. :lolflag:

Good 1! :lolflag:
Orlsend
May 5th, 2009, 08:32 AM
I am on a EeePc bloated with services, its 40 seconds to boot all the way!
lisati
May 5th, 2009, 08:35 AM
I have Ubuntu on three machines: from grub to login screen bootchart reckons 21 on the fastest, 22 on the next, and 26 on the slowest.
mihai.ile
May 5th, 2009, 10:13 AM
My boot time is either 16 seconds or 50 seconds.
It depends on a random unknown issue in Jaunty which I can't find a solution for, as I explain here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1148898
calrogman
May 5th, 2009, 12:24 PM
17 seconds according to bootchart, ext4 /, ext3 /home.
oomingmak
May 5th, 2009, 01:39 PM
7 seconds.

That's a complete cold boot, up to the full Gnome desktop.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7136475#post7136475
the8thstar
May 5th, 2009, 03:09 PM
A word to remind users out there: boot chart does not include the time from cold boot, only the time when boot chart starts til the desktop is loaded.

In other words, boot chart doesn't start when you power on your computer. I'm interested in the REAL time.
oomingmak
May 5th, 2009, 04:14 PM
Well obviously bootchart does not include HW POST time, but it was still a full boot rather than a resume from suspend (as someone joked earlier).

POST takes an additional 11 seconds on my main PC. Therefore 18 seconds total.
sydbat
May 5th, 2009, 04:28 PM
Oh about 15 nanoseconds and you can't prove it doesn't.Gotcha beat....000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002 sub-nanoseconds...and that can't be proven either