On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Richard Vickery <richard.vickeryrv@gmail.com> wrote:


On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:30 AM, sguazt <marco.guazzone@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Richard Vickery
<richard.vickeryrv@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:56 PM, sguazt <marco.guazzone@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 9:00 PM, sguazt <marco.guazzone@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > On my system, the boot phase takes only approximately 28 seconds but
>> > both the reboot and shutdown phase take approximately 1 minute and 10
>> > seconds.
>> >
>> > This did not happen with F16.
>> >
>> > Could someone help me to solve this issue?
>> >
>> > Here below are my systemd services:
>> >
>>
>> [cut]
>>
>> > Thank you very much.
>> >
>>
>> So, am I the only one facing this problem?
>>
>> Any hint on what should I look for?
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> -- Marco
>
>
> My 2 cents:
>
> Why do you need to reboot? What are you doing at power-off that you need to
> hang around and wait for it? If a portable computer, just close it, pack it
> away before the lights go out, and walk away? and is a minute and 38 seconds
> really SO important? If this minuscule amount time is so important, you
> could retire and get more of your minute and a half.
>

Hi Richard,

I need to reboot/power-off mainly for 2 reasons:
1. I have a dual-boot system (Linux+Win)
2. The battery of my laptop has low capacity

For what concerns the 1min and 38sec, it's not an infinity but IMHO is
a very long time if I compare it with F16 (that was installed on the
same laptop).

Cheers,

-- Marco


So is it crashing that you are worried about? My main, though unstated, point was that, at least in my opinion, time for bootup is not a concern in the Linux world. I think our concern has more to do with making a safe, secure, unbreakable computing environment. Because of the name - Beefy Miracle - I don't think we care about the time it takes to boot up as long as it works. It's just my opinion, and I could be wrong.

If you really need it to boot up faster, it is possible to go into /boot and stop grub from calling up as many things, but it is inadvisable; you could end up screwing things badly enough that the computer will not boot into the current installation anymore.