Thanks for your time and hard work. However, I think my additions to this bug are now irrelevant.
I have kept my install updated and purged and reinstalled bootchart so it includes the desktop (KDE) start-up. I also purged and reinstalled ureadahead. Now I have: - Without ureadahead: 1:12.90 During reprofiling: not sure, I had loads of fscks and X crashes going on for several boots With ureadahead: 0:45.45 So, a fair improvement. I didn't keep any of my Karmic bootcharts but I think it averaged just under a minute. But... (the BIG BUT)... The 10-15 seconds of black nothingness before the Plymouth splash starts really is a step backwards. Maybe it's just a consequence of using the proprietary Nvidia driver, but uspash/xsplash started right after GRUB2 and the progress bar appeared to sync with the boot process (visible evidence of ureadahead's speed boost). Right now, the 'boot experience' for me at least isn't quite worthy of such a title. Sorry to be so negative. I guess this really a moan rather than a constructive bug report, but isn't there anyway to get the Plymouth splash to start after the GRUB2 screen fades? -- Boot speed increased from 30s to 50s when ureadahead enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/552165 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
