What are your tips for faster boots? My system seems to hang a bit at POST until it boots into Mint. Right after post I’ll get a blinking cursor for about a full minute until it boots in. All ssd, so I know it’s something I must have done wrong. It’s also a 14 year old processor (amd fx be 8 core, rx580), but win### booted faster on it.
Thank you all so much for your help, here is my output of systemd:
It must be something weird with my initial boot. I am dual booting, but on separate hard drives. My PC does have 6 hard drives in it however. Or, maybe something is messed up in my install?
43.616s fstrim.service 11.630s plocate-updatedb.service 10.593s systemd-suspend.service 4.389s plymouth-quit-wait.service 4.277s ufw.service 4.028s systemd-resolved.service 3.964s systemd-timesyncd.service 3.330s NetworkManager-wait-online.service 2.759s apt-daily.service 2.293s fwupd.service 1.563s logrotate.service 1.316s NetworkManager.service 835ms apt-daily-upgrade.service 693ms motd-news.service 653ms blueman-mechanism.service 458ms user@1000.service 450ms dev-sda2.device 432ms dpkg-db-backup.service 404ms udisks2.service 349ms accounts-daemon.service 335ms gnome-remote-desktop.service 309ms ubuntu-system-adjustments.service 307ms apparmor.servicefstrim.service is disk tool (that’s supposed to only be run once a week, not every time you boot) that automatically cleans up old deleted SSD data. https://opensource.com/article/20/2/trim-solid-state-storage-linux
It looks like it’s running too often, or on the wrong devices, every time you boot your computer. You can actually safely disable it; https://askubuntu.com/questions/1165128/fstrim-is-causing-high-boot-time but it’s worth looking into why it’s taking so long and being run so often.
Running this should show you the log results of fstrim doing it’s thing without actually doing anything;
sudo fstrim --fstab --verbose --dry-runThese two will show the status of fstrim and it’s autorun service;
systemctl status fstrimsystemctl status fstrim.timerI got most of this from a quick google search; https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fstrim.service+systemd+slow You can do the same for the other major time-takers on your boot list. For comparison, here’s the top results of my semi-fresh install of linux mint;