Terrible boot and program load time on new laptop
(EDIT - laptop hardware details are basically these http://www.scan.co.uk/products/156-ms... except mine has 6GB of RAM - everything else looks about the same)
I have an MSI GX660R laptop which came with Windows and on which Windows runs without issue (once the right drivers are installed). When I install Fedora 16 or Ubuntu 11.10, however, boot time becomes ridiculous - in excess of 40 seconds after BIOS - and application load speeds are lengthened by a similar proportion when run for the first time after a boot up. On my other laptop, a four year old Acer which was not particularly impressive even in its prime, Ubuntu boots in half the time and launches Firefox immediatly. Windows also boots in around 20 seconds on this laptop with the problem, so it's not just a slow hard drive causing the problem.
So far, I've had no luck in finding or fixing the problem. The HDD's SMART status is fine, output of
sudo hdparm -i /dev/sda
is
/dev/sda:
Model=Hitachi HTS545050B9A300, FwRev=PB4OC60F, SerialNo=101103PBN41017FPP66E
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=7208kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=976773168
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: unknown: ATA/ATAPI-2,3,4,5,6,7
* signifies the current active mode
I also made a boot chart, but I'm not linuxie enough to be able to interpret it. It can be found here if you think it may be useful. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/...
Thankyou for any help or advice you might be able to give me :)
