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[CLOSED] ZorinOS slow to boot

aex

Sun May 07, 2017 5:41:32 pm

Installed ZorinOS on a computer previously running only WindowsXP. It has a Intel dual Atom 230@1.6 Ghz and Intel 945G x86/MMX/SSE2 graphic card.
The boot time is rather long.
From pressing the hardware button to showing the GRUB menu it's 13 Seconds. From the GRUB menu to WindowsXP it is 35 seconds, but to ZorinOS it takes 1 min and 7 seconds, almost twice what it takes for Windows to boot.
Is there anything I can do to optimize or speed up the boot?
(Except buying new hardware or an SSD drive, I'm aware of that.)

Swarfendor437

Sun May 07, 2017 9:41:44 pm

Hi, what make and model of notebook is it? Atom processors are not that fast - you may be better waiting for Zorin 12 Lite when it is released. ;) :D

aex

Mon May 08, 2017 7:00:20 am

Hi Swarfendor437,
It's not a notebook despite of the Atom. It's a Desktop PC in a 'slim form factor' the board is foxconn produced as fa as I can tell. I checked the BIOS and it's up to date (2009 but no new updates).

Swarfendor437

Mon May 08, 2017 11:38:25 am

OK, give SolydX Community Edition (Stable) a try 32-bit edition - it uses xfce which is what Zorin 12 Lite will use when it is released.

https://solydxk.com/downloads/community-editions/

aex

Mon May 08, 2017 2:33:47 pm

Before I try this.. I was wondering if removing the (kernel) components that this machine doesn't have will speed up the boot.
I therefore removed ndiswrapper, and some AMD and NVIDIA specific things, which seemed to have some effect (a few seconds faster now).
I was about to remove all wifi and bluetooth related things, but that will also remove the gnome and ZorionOS meta packages. Or is that safe to do?

Swarfendor437

Mon May 08, 2017 5:54:07 pm

If anything starts removing core components you will end up with a broken system! :o

aex

Thu May 18, 2017 9:44:12 am

Yes, that's what happened. Found another old unused hardware with better specs and did a fresh install there. Runs very well.

Swarfendor437

Thu May 18, 2017 11:51:30 am

Can we mark this thread as [CLOSED] now? ;) :D

aex

Thu May 18, 2017 2:53:23 pm

Yes. (closing by editing the headline of the original post, right?)

Swarfendor437

Thu May 18, 2017 6:49:59 pm

Yes that is correct. ;) :D