Almost TEN MINUTES to Boot

[oldfred]

Your ten minutes must be fast. This took almost 5 days to boot.
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/pro...ot-the-kernel/

Ok very old system.
I never have had any Linux install take more than 40 seconds. And now with SSD boot is very fast even though more is being installed on boot.

Not sure what is loading in background as it says 4 sec to graphical target, but over a minute & half to fully boot.

red@z170-noble:~$ systemd-analyze 
Startup finished in 1min 33.494s (firmware) + 4.390s (loader) + 4.343s (kernel) + 4.118s (userspace) = 1min 46.346s  
graphical.target reached after 4.085s in userspace.

[bilkay]

$ inxi -bz

System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-122-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Unity 7.5.0 
  Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS (Focal Fossa) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP G62 Notebook PC 
  v: 0499110003202710000020000 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 1484 v: 77.15 serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: F.11 date: 03/23/2010 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 59.7 Wh condition: 59.7/73.3 Wh (81%) 
CPU:
  Dual Core: Pentium T4500 type: MCP speed: 1197 MHz min/max: 1200/2300 MHz 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Mobile 4 Series Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: modesetting 
  unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel GM45 Express (CTG) 
  v: 2.1 Mesa 21.2.6 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 215.43 GiB (72.3%) 
Info:
  Processes: 263 Uptime: 4h 39m Memory: 2.83 GiB used: 1.71 GiB (60.2%) 
  Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.38

[bilkay]

$  sudo dmidecode -s bios-version
F.11

[bilkay]

$  udisksctl status 
MODEL                     REVISION  SERIAL               DEVICE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hitachi HTS725032A9A364   PC3OC72E  100320PCKJ00VQG4H9MK sda     
hp       CDDVDW TS-L633N  0300      R3186GEZ368304       sr0     
Generic- Multi-Card       1.00      20071114173400000    sdb

[ne29914]

I've had problems with long boot times, and it almost always turned out to be problems with partition UUIDs not matching the UUIDs in the system files Can happen when restoring backups etc.).
Mainly:

/etc/fstab

But also

/etc/default/grub
/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume

If there's a mismatch between your real UUIDs and those files, Ubuntu will try finding the partitions, and it takes a lot of time.

From terminal, run:

blkid

to see the UUIDs and compare them to the files I listed.

[bilkay]

I've had problems with long boot times, and it almost always turned out to be problems with partition UUIDs not matching the UUIDs in the system files Can happen when restoring backups etc.).
Mainly:

/etc/fstab

But also

/etc/default/grub
/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume

If there's a mismatch between your real UUIDs and those files, Ubuntu will try finding the partitions, and it takes a lot of time.

From terminal, run:

blkid

to see the UUIDs and compare them to the files I listed.

They're all good.

[ne29914]

Try adding the following line to /etc/default/grub:

GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT=$GRUB_TIMEOUT

[tea for one]

$ inxi -bz
System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-122-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Unity 7.5.0 
  Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS (Focal Fossa) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP G62 Notebook PC 
  v: 0499110003202710000020000 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 1484 v: 77.15 serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: F.11 date: 03/23/2010 

Is your laptop 14 years old?
If so, perhaps a different flavour of the Ubuntu family may perform more responsively?
Try Lubuntu 24.04 in a live session?

[ne29914]

Is your laptop 14 years old?
If so, perhaps a different flavour of the Ubuntu family may perform more responsively?
Try Lubuntu 24.04 in a live session?

Mine is 16 years old and boots within 30 seconds. But Lubuntu might be a better choice. I recommend 20.04, later versions can't control screen brightness:

macro@1dk6910p:~$ inxi -bz
System:    Kernel: 5.15.0-122-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: LXQt 0.14.1 Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS (Focal Fossa) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Compaq 6910p v: F.13 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 30BE v: KBC Version 68.35 serial: <filter> BIOS: Hewlett-Packard 
           v: 68MCU Ver. F.13 date: 02/20/2008 
Battery:   ID-1: C23B charge: 47.5 Wh condition: 47.5/47.5 Wh (100%) 
CPU:       Dual Core: Intel Core2 Duo T7100 type: MCP speed: 798 MHz min/max: 800/1801 MHz 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1280x800~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 965GM (CL) v: 2.1 Mesa 21.2.6 
Network:   Device-1: Intel 82566MM Gigabit Network driver: e1000e 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 232.89 GiB used: 36.86 GiB (15.8%) 
Info:      Processes: 178 Uptime: 2h 04m Memory: 3.81 GiB used: 1.14 GiB (29.8%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.38 
macro@1dk6910p:~$

[tea for one]

Mine is 16 years old and boots within 30 seconds. But Lubuntu might be a better choice. I recommend 20.04, later versions can't control screen brightness:

Remarkable, well done.
Hopefully, your experience will be able to help the OP.
Mine is a callow youth, only 8 years old, although the UEFI firmware is a touch older.

Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Stream Notebook 
  v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <superuser required> 
  Mobo: HP model: 815E v: 32.0D serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde 
  v: F.05 date: 11/23/2015