danq989
October 30th, 2009, 07:14 PM
Hi, I’ve just installed Ubuntu 9.10 netbook remix on my Acer Aspire One 110 with a 32GB Transcend IDE SSD.
Everything worked great (after tweaking) under 9.04 but I wanted the improved intel video driver, kernel, and supposed SSD optimizations and faster boot time of 9.10.
I first tried an in-place upgrade which took forever and was botched (WINE wouldn’t upgrade, it spit up, and I was left in a bad place). I then repartitioned the drive and started a clean 9.10 install.
Boot times under 9.10 are staggeringly longer than with 9.04 (9.04: 30 sec to usable desktop, 9.10 takes 2-3 minutes).
After much wrangling, it seems the delay is mounting and remounting (rw) the boot drive. The HD light just stays solid for a good 35 sec during the initial mount process and once again later after the login screen but before the desktop is populated.
The same delay happens when gparted scans the drives for partitions or any other op where drives are mounted/remounted.
WTF? I’ve heard that mountall may be broken in 9.10 but I don’t know where/how to get bleeding edge releases of that tool.
Or maybe there’s something else. Anybody else seeing this issue?
—DanQ989
Everything worked great (after tweaking) under 9.04 but I wanted the improved intel video driver, kernel, and supposed SSD optimizations and faster boot time of 9.10.
I first tried an in-place upgrade which took forever and was botched (WINE wouldn’t upgrade, it spit up, and I was left in a bad place). I then repartitioned the drive and started a clean 9.10 install.
Boot times under 9.10 are staggeringly longer than with 9.04 (9.04: 30 sec to usable desktop, 9.10 takes 2-3 minutes).
After much wrangling, it seems the delay is mounting and remounting (rw) the boot drive. The HD light just stays solid for a good 35 sec during the initial mount process and once again later after the login screen but before the desktop is populated.
The same delay happens when gparted scans the drives for partitions or any other op where drives are mounted/remounted.
WTF? I’ve heard that mountall may be broken in 9.10 but I don’t know where/how to get bleeding edge releases of that tool.
Or maybe there’s something else. Anybody else seeing this issue?
—DanQ989