Thanks for the tip Sebastien. On both computers I had a floppy assigned in the BIOS, but I had no physical floppy installed on the computers. Disabling the floppy into the BIOS both machines solved the boot speed. Interesting though, when the floppy was enabled in BIOS the bootchart showed a boot time of 21.65 seconds when in reality it took 46 seconds until I could see any desktop. I observed that the bootchart's 21 seconds report is counted a little after the login sound. This floppy issue seems to affect only lucid desktop, because I installed Kubuntu 10.04 and Karmic desktop and I had no such problems. In Lucid I had a floppy icon in "Places". That was not the case in Kubuntu and Karmic. I guess Lucid is detecting some kind of a floppy because of the BIOS settings, even though there's no floppy installed. I'll attach the boot chart with the floppy enabled in BIOS and the second one with the floppy disabled. As you can see, the boot times are close, so this means that bootchart doesn't take into the consideration the other 25 second it took to load the desktop. Could this be a bug? :)
** Attachment added: "bootchart.png - with floppy enabled in BIOS" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49024395/htpc-lucid-20100524-1.png -- Lucid desktop takes around 25 seconds to load https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584262 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
