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.service
fstrim.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-run
These two will show the status of fstrim and it’s autorun service;
systemctl status fstrim
systemctl status fstrim.timer
I 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;
dageek247@mintPC:~$ systemd-analyze blame 2.237s NetworkManager-wait-online.service 2.077s systemd-binfmt.service 2.003s systemd-resolved.service 1.976s systemd-timesyncd.service 1.916s fwupd-refresh.service 1.365s logrotate.service 1.326s NetworkManager.service 933ms fwupd.service 401ms blueman-mechanism.service 334ms udisks2.service 263ms apt-daily-upgrade.service 254ms dpkg-db-backup.service 229ms dev-nvme0n1p3.device 215ms accounts-daemon.service 201ms power-profiles-daemon.service 199ms polkit.service 197ms smartmontools.service 183ms rsyslog.service 173ms ubuntu-system-adjustments.service 169ms systemd-udev-trigger.service 156ms user@1000.service 155ms proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount 146ms ModemManager.service 132ms apparmor.service 123ms avahi-daemon.service 121ms bluetooth.service 114ms grub-common.service 111ms lm-sensors.service 106ms switcheroo-control.service 105ms secureboot-db.service