0

I am running a dual boot with ubuntu on a seperate SSD and Windows on another SSD. It's taking far longer to boot up ubuntu that it should be. I tried changing my grub settings to skip the menu and boot right into Ubuntu which didn't make much of a difference.

My ubuntu boot loader is installed on the EFI partition on the Windows disk instead of a partition on the Ubuntu disk which I've read is fine but I'm wondering if that might be the issue.

The results from systemd-analyze are:

startup finished in 11.993s (firmware) + 4.860s (loader) + 8.598s (kernel) + 9.461s (userspace) = 34.913s 
graphical.target reached after 9.451s in userspace

system-analyze blame gets me:

6.513s NetworkManager-wait-online.service                   
4.246s plymouth-quit-wait.service                           
1.504s windscribe-cli.service                               
1.189s fwupd.service                                        
1.121s gpu-manager.service                                  
1.063s dev-sda1.device                                      
 842ms systemd-rfkill.service                               
 834ms colord.service                                       
 752ms dev-loop9.device                                     
 734ms dev-loop8.device                                     
 721ms snap-gtk\x2dcommon\x2dthemes-1474.mount              
 720ms snap-opera-98.mount                                  
 693ms snap-gnome\x2d3\x2d28\x2d1804-145.mount              
 691ms dev-loop11.device                                    
 646ms dev-loop2.device                                     
 634ms dev-loop17.device                                    
 629ms dev-loop15.device                                    
 626ms dev-loop16.device                                    
 626ms dev-loop3.device                                     
 626ms systemd-backlight@backlight:intel_backlight.service  
 625ms dev-loop10.device                                    
 612ms dev-loop18.device                                    
 609ms dev-loop14.device                                    
 596ms dev-loop1.device                                     
 594ms snap-snap\x2dstore-481.mount                         
 592ms dev-loop12.device                                    
 585ms snap-gnome\x2d3\x2d28\x2d1804-128.mount              
 579ms dev-loop13.device                                    
 577ms dev-loop4.device                                     
 573ms snapd.service                                        
 543ms dev-loop5.device                                     
 520ms dev-loop6.device

Windows will boot in 8 seconds so I'm not sure why the firmware + loader + kernel are so long for ubuntu.

1 Answers1

0

Try upgrading your motherboard's firmware to the latest version. This should be routine maintenance but most people neglect it.

On my work desktop, doing this took nearly 3 minutes off my start up time.