Speeding my boot

[Tony Gamble]

Now I have the right desktop and language I thought I'd see if I could speed up the boot time before I handed over the laptop to my wife.

I'll remove Bluetooth and printer from the autoload as she does not use either of them.

One of the things that have come up with Google is the reprofiling of the boot. I'll paste the text below. Can someone with an understanding of Linux Lite let me know whether it is something to try. Thanks

Tony..........

Go to the terminal and type in

sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

enter your root password, and wait for a file to open up.

look for the line that says

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

and remove the words "quiet" and "splash" ( NOTE : THIS WILL DISABLE YOUR LINUX MINT SPLASH SCREEN, it doesnt help THAT much, but in my opinion it helps a little. )

also, add the word "profile" into that space. this wiill profile your boot and make it faster everytime, ( NOTE : THE FIRST BOOT AFTERDOING THIS WILL MOST LIKELY BE SLOWER, DONT WORRY! IT IS JUST REPROFILING YOUR BOOT NOW )

So basically make that line look like this --

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="profile"

Save and exit!

Open up a terminal again and type

Sudo update-grub2

enter root password, wait for it too update, and then  restart your computer.

[Wirezfree]

Hi,

I have tried this a number of times, never conclusive about the improvement.

But one thing, all the reference to it seem to indicate you edit the grub "once"
then return it to the normal "quite splash" setting after the re-boot.
You then do a re-profile only if you make subsequent significant changes.

Dave

[shengchieh]

Here's one link on my website.  Maybe it'll help.

http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki...eResources (bootup; CELF Technology/Project)

Sheng-Chieh

[Tony Gamble]

Thank you shengchieh.

A most impressive resource but it's hard for a newcomer like me to pick out the bits I would be safe to try.

But thanks for your interest.

Tony