Fresh install takes about a minute to boot, OS installed on a 240gb sata ssd. Anyone have any ideas to get this booting quicker?
#Linux Mint 21.3 Cinn, slow boot
sharp coral
upbeat condor
Check BIOS settings, see if touchpad setting is set to advanced instead of basic
sharp coral
Check BIOS settings, see if touchpad setting is set to advanced instead of basic
do i need to set it to "Basic" ?
upbeat condor
Try it and see if it fixes boot issue
sharp coral
okay brb
that seems a little quicker, going to reboot and stopwatch it now, thanks for the help
okay I went from 58 seconds to lock screen to 32 seconds. thanks for the help
upbeat condor
32 seconds is still slow for a SSD
sharp coral
32 seconds is still slow for a SSD
yeah im not sure whats causing the slowdown
i tried a fix adding nosgx to grub but it didn't do anything for boot time
upbeat condor
Are you using zfs?
upbeat condor
Is it BIOS boot or UEFI?
sharp coral
my laptops options are limited in the bios, i have it set to legacy
ill check and see if uefi mode is quicker brb
I switched to UEFI, I had to add a trusted file to boot
boot time is 27 seconds now
upbeat condor
Is optical drive set high in boot order?
sharp coral
Is optical drive set high in boot order?
im not sure, my laptop has no internal optical drive, i have a usb dvd burner that I think was connected when i installed LM but its since been unplugged
upbeat condor
Ever since I started using SSDs my boot times have been under 20 seconds, how much RAM?
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I am not sure what is making it slower than expected
sharp coral
I am not sure what is making it slower than expected
thanks for helping me as much as you could, the boot times about half what it was now, not great but much better
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Ok
minor bolt
hey just an idea
scroll through your uefi a bit and see if quick boot is enabled, iirc it should be by default but still
upbeat condor
scroll through your uefi a bit and see if quick boot is enabled, iirc it should ...
Quick boot can mess up driver loading
minor bolt
well give it a shot at least
upbeat condor
It might be like the one Toshiba laptop I had years ago. The boot times were terrible- about 2 minutes for Mint even but once booted everything ran fine
sharp coral
hey just an idea
this old laptop has very limited options in the bios, i was lucky there was an option for the trackpad
minor bolt
this old laptop has very limited options in the bios, i was lucky there was an o...
im guessing that means theres no quick boot option?
sharp coral
im guessing that means theres no quick boot option?
yeah i don't think there is, i can reboot and check but its pretty locked down,
minor bolt
quick boot is a standard (iirc) so there should be
sharp coral
i'm now trying to figure out why i have zfs mount service running at boot, both of my drives are formatted with ext4