How quicks your boot?

[ImNeat]

Hey all - wondering how fast everyone is booting? Stick in your basic specs and distro as well.

I've been running Ubuntu off a p3 850MHz laptop, booting at around 2 minutes. Now that I have a CD drive I'm looking to change distros. Gentoo's compiling during the install seems to overheat my processor so I'm ruling that out. What's everyone else running?

[oz]

CPU: P4 3GHz
Mem: Crucial 1 GB
Mobo: ASUS P4P800-E

Arch Linux

...about 14 seconds to command prompt, then add about 3 or 4 more for startx

[spencerf]

CPU = AMD Athlon 64 3700+
MEM= 1 gig (el cheapo)
DISTRO = gentoo

with GDM + KDE 30 secs
without GDM to command prompt 15-20 secs

but all this depends on the number of services you have automatically started at boot. So enabling things like cups, ssh, etc.. will make it longer.

but I do have cups, hplip, netmount. syslog-ng, coldplug, alsa all at boot.


I also have arch and that is slightly faster to command prompt.

[AlexK]

CPU = AMD Athlon XP 1800
RAM = 512 MB generic

SUSE 9.3 ~ 1 min 10 sec or so to KDM another 10 sec for working KDE
Gentoo ~ 30 sec to Command Line, another 15 sec more for KDE (i.e. 45 sec from grub to KDE)

gentoo boot is with bare minimum services started no cups, sshd, coldplug etc..

[easuter]

PIII - 450mhz
128mb ram

about 45 secs with gui loggon

running Vector Linux 5.1.1 SOHO, with Fluxbox

[Roxoff]

Gulp. I have no idea - I never reboot unless I've got a new kernel, and then I take the opportunity to go make coffee...

I have an extra IDE card in the machine, and that takes bloody ages to detect hard drives on every boot. I think Linux comes up quicker than the initial bios check/disk detect cycle, but I could be wrong... Maybe 30-40 seconds or so... I'm running FC5.

[techieMoe]

My setup is in my signature.

Xandros 3.0: 2-3 minutes
CentOS 4.3: 1-2 minutes

Honestly, I think there are more important things to worry about than boot time.