I had Linux Lite (4.6) installed in a triple boot on a 120Gb SSD.
I went to use Timeshift to make a backup of Linux Lite, but
it failed saying that there was not enough disc space.
I checked and sure enough, there was only a few Gb of free
space on the Lite partition.
So, booting to a live Lite USB, I deleted one of the other os's
and then resized Lite to a greater partition size.
Well, it did something to grub and when I rebooted, it booted
to the grub rescue mode.
Well, using another computer to get some grub rescue mode
instructions, I was then able to boot into Lite.
Then I reinstall grub to /dev/sda and did a grub update.
It all appears to work now except that whereas before the time
to boot into Lite was about 30 seconds, now it takes 3 minutes
to boot.
Any idea what could have made the boot time go from 30 sec to 3 minutes ?
Here is a copy of my grub file:
# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
# info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
#GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR='Linux Lite'
#GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
#GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -d 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
# Linux Lite Grub background
GRUB_BACKGROUND="/boot/grub_linux_lite.png"
# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"
# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console
# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX="keep"
GRUB_VIDEO_BACKEND="vbe"
# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
Edit: I just looked at the boot log and
there are seemingly countless occurances
of starting light display manager and within
each occurance it is trying to start vboxadd.service.
Could this have anything to do with the slow boot time ?
I went to use Timeshift to make a backup of Linux Lite, but
it failed saying that there was not enough disc space.
I checked and sure enough, there was only a few Gb of free
space on the Lite partition.
So, booting to a live Lite USB, I deleted one of the other os's
and then resized Lite to a greater partition size.
Well, it did something to grub and when I rebooted, it booted
to the grub rescue mode.
Well, using another computer to get some grub rescue mode
instructions, I was then able to boot into Lite.
Then I reinstall grub to /dev/sda and did a grub update.
It all appears to work now except that whereas before the time
to boot into Lite was about 30 seconds, now it takes 3 minutes
to boot.
Any idea what could have made the boot time go from 30 sec to 3 minutes ?
Here is a copy of my grub file:
# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
# info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
#GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR='Linux Lite'
#GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
#GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -d 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
# Linux Lite Grub background
GRUB_BACKGROUND="/boot/grub_linux_lite.png"
# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"
# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console
# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX="keep"
GRUB_VIDEO_BACKEND="vbe"
# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
Edit: I just looked at the boot log and
there are seemingly countless occurances
of starting light display manager and within
each occurance it is trying to start vboxadd.service.
Could this have anything to do with the slow boot time ?