too long too boot

[Steven Mason]

I've been using LL on half a dozen laptops for several years. With all the versions up to and including 4.X my boot time has been fairly consistent, about a minute. When I recently upgraded to LL 5.0 I noticed that it now takes considerably longer, about 1.5 minutes, long enough to be mildly annoying. My laptops have HDD drives. 

If it's taking you three minutes to boot 4.8 I wonder how long it would take to boot 5.0. As for my "long" boot time of 1.5 minutes, I've looked at my startup services and there is no non-essential service I can uncheck, which I suppose means I can't reduce my boot time.

You didn't say what your previous, shorter boot time was.

[TheDead]

Paul74 has a point mentioning drive speed.
For example, if you are booting from a USB key, boot time can vary greatly depending on speed the key but also on the port used.
Also, a standard mechanical hard drive can vary from 4200 to 7200 RPM too and be SATA1, SATA2 or SATA3, another possible bottle neck.

[Paul74]

Hello,

Could be a problem with the boot disk ?
Do you use a dual boot ?

Booting on a SSD may improve your boot time.
In my case, booting LL 4.8 from a SSD is no longer than 20 seconds. Previously, it was something between 1 and 2 minutes on a HDD.
My PC is quite old (Dell Optiflex 760 with 7 GB RAM, temporary files in RAM to prevent too much accesses to the SSD).

[TheDead]

Putting the network card with a static IP adress seems to help others too.
I don't think you could save more than a few seconds, better than nothing though.

[Artim]

A lot depends on the hardware of course, but you can disable services you don't need by unchecking them on the Startup menu:

Menu --> Xfce Settings Manager --> Session and Startup

Then uncheck services you don't use or need. For me it's Bluetooth and Virtualbox, etc. Next time bootup speed should improve a bit.

[Blinmakerivan]

i am usin linux lite 4.8 but it takes too long to boot even after removing virtualbox. it takes around 3 mins