Nillerr
January 27th, 2011, 09:43 AM
So I installed Ubuntu 10.10 yesterday, hoping to switch for good on my laptop.
I had some troubles installing it, but it eventually worked out.
Then I had to mess around with the grub.cfg file to remove screen on boot with the failed root stuff (the one where typing "exit" gets you past it), this worked out fine as well.
But when I managed to fix all of this, it would still hang at the flashing white dot on boot for 2-3 minutes.
I eventually gave up trying to fix this, and tried Ubuntu 9.10, which also had slow boot time, and then I just went and installed Windows 7.
Specs:
Motherboard: Don't know
CPU: Pentium Dual Core T4300 @ 2.10 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 9650 GT
RAM: 2x2 (4 GB)
When it would boot, WiFi worked as well.
Also read that you could switch something with the SATA controller in the BIOS, I didn't have the option that would fix it, I could only chose between AHCI and IDE, and AHCI was already chosen.
Since I would really like to switch to Ubuntu, what can I do to get fast boot times?
EDIT: Booting from the LiveCD works like I'd expect, fast and clean (well, as fast as my DVD drive allows...), it shows the Ubuntu loading screen without too many "white dots blinking" before it.
I'm using the 32-bit version.
I had some troubles installing it, but it eventually worked out.
Then I had to mess around with the grub.cfg file to remove screen on boot with the failed root stuff (the one where typing "exit" gets you past it), this worked out fine as well.
But when I managed to fix all of this, it would still hang at the flashing white dot on boot for 2-3 minutes.
I eventually gave up trying to fix this, and tried Ubuntu 9.10, which also had slow boot time, and then I just went and installed Windows 7.
Specs:
Motherboard: Don't know
CPU: Pentium Dual Core T4300 @ 2.10 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 9650 GT
RAM: 2x2 (4 GB)
When it would boot, WiFi worked as well.
Also read that you could switch something with the SATA controller in the BIOS, I didn't have the option that would fix it, I could only chose between AHCI and IDE, and AHCI was already chosen.
Since I would really like to switch to Ubuntu, what can I do to get fast boot times?
EDIT: Booting from the LiveCD works like I'd expect, fast and clean (well, as fast as my DVD drive allows...), it shows the Ubuntu loading screen without too many "white dots blinking" before it.
I'm using the 32-bit version.