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My Boot Times
7th March 2009

My Boot Times... (so that I can compare them with 9.04 when it comes out)

Ubuntu 8.10

0.00 Power on
0.06 Start GPU Memory Test (512MB)
0.15 Start Motherboard Loading Screen
0.22 End Motherboard Loading Screen (shows some hardware config)
0.30 GRUB Menu Displayed
0.32 OS Load (I have GRUB set on a 2 sec timeout)
1.15 Login Screen Ready
1.55 GNOME Desktop ready with taskbars loaded (OS loaded and responsive)

Windows XP

0.00 Power on
0.06 Start GPU Memory Test (512MB)
0.15 Start Motherboard Loading Screen
0.22 End Motherboard Loading Screen (shows some hardware config)
0.30 GRUB Menu Displayed
0.32 OS Load (I have GRUB set on a 2 sec timeout)
1.17 Login Screen Ready
1.47 Background Loaded
2.02 Taskbar Loaded
2.17 OS Fully Loaded and Responsive

Summary

Hardware Level  - 24 sec
GRUB            - 6 sec
XP OS Level     - 1 min 45 sec
Ubuntu OS Level - 1 min 23 sec
Tags: ubuntu.