Boot times

[AllanPen]

I recently took the plunge and shrunk my laptop ssd drive to accommodate Mint. Actually I am a long time Mint user, but was a bit nervous dealing with the new UEFI format. Anyways it all went well. Also my ageing PC crashed and I built a new one with a B360 HD3 MB and an i5-8400 CPU with 16GB RAM.
I have a question. The laptop boots in 12 seconds. The PC is about 30 seconds and still multiple times faster than Windows 10. This is not a complaint, but I'm curious as to why my laptop boots Mint a couple of times faster than my PC. The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 15-5578.

[JerryF]

The laptop has an SSD. Does the PC have an SSD or hard disk?

If the PC has a hard disk, then the laptop will boot quicker because is has an SSD, which is usually faster than a hard disk.

[trytip]

this will tell you errors in boot (some can be fixed some issues like nvidia driver loading is up to nvidia devs.

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dmesg | grep -i "error\|warn\|fail"

this will tell you how everything is loaded (not available in 17.3)

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systemd-analyze blame

the more hardware you have installed the longer the boot will be. i have 5 spinning drives and settled for slow boot a while back but around 30-45 seconds is fine for me. sometimes when things are updating 1 minute is also fine

[AllanPen]

Yikes this doesn't look too good; I must have done something wrong.
allan@AllansPC ~ $ dmesg | grep -i "error\|warn\|fail"
[ 0.014410] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x33CDA (20170531/psloop-242)
[ 0.014417] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x33CE3 (20170531/psloop-242)
[ 0.014449] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x343CE (20170531/psloop-242)
[ 0.014454] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x343D7 (20170531/psloop-242)
[ 0.014484] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x34AC2 (20170531/psloop-242)
[ 0.014489] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x34ACB (20170531/psloop-242)
[ 0.014518] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x351B7 (20170531/psloop-242)
[ 0.014523] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x351C0 (20170531/psloop-242)
[ 0.014551] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x358AC (20170531/psloop-242)
[ 0.014556] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x358B5 (20170531/psloop-242)
[ 0.014564] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x35C5F (20170531/psloop-242)
[ 0.014569] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x35C68 (20170531/psloop-242)
[ 0.106809] ACPI Error: [_SB_.PCI0.RP05.PXSX] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170531/dswload2-191)
[ 0.106817] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.PCI0.RP04.PXSX, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170531/psparse-550)
[ 0.108030] ACPI Error: [_SB_.PCI0.RP09.PXSX] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170531/dswload2-191)
[ 0.108035] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.PCI0.RP08.PXSX, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170531/psparse-550)
[ 0.109041] ACPI Error: [_SB_.PCI0.RP13.PXSX] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170531/dswload2-191)
[ 0.109046] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.PCI0.RP12.PXSX, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170531/psparse-550)
[ 0.111893] ACPI Error: [\_SB_.PCI0.RP05.PXSX.WIST] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170531/psargs-364)
[ 0.111893] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \CNDP, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170531/psparse-550)
[ 0.111893] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170531/psparse-550)
[ 3.230782] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.PCI0.SPI1.FPNT._CRS, AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE (20170531/psparse-550)
[ 3.230790] ACPI Error: Method execution failed \_SB.PCI0.SPI1.FPNT._CRS, AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE (20170531/uteval-103)
[ 3.231914] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.PCI0.SPI2.FPNT._CRS, AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE (20170531/psparse-550)
[ 3.231921] ACPI Error: Method execution failed \_SB.PCI0.SPI2.FPNT._CRS, AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE (20170531/uteval-103)
[ 4.051447] dpc 0000:00:1d.3:pcie010: DPC error containment capabilities: Int Msg #0, RPExt+ PoisonedTLP+ SwTrigger+ RP PIO Log 4, DL_ActiveErr+
[ 4.232540] RAS: Correctable Errors collector initialized.
[ 12.629021] EXT4-fs (sdb1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro
[ 1979.950791] ata5: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
[ 2298.413757] ata5: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)

[trytip]

@AllanPen
reboot a few times and check again dmesg | grep -i "error\|warn\|fail" some errors may be gone . ACPI errors are common but not so many. updating kernel can remove some but also new errors appear.

[AllanPen]

Did three reboots with the same results. Upgraded kernel to v4.14.15; same results:
~ $ dmesg | grep -i "error\|warn\|fail"
[ 0.015759] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x33CDA (20170728/psloop-247)
[ 0.015767] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x33CE3 (20170728/psloop-247)
[ 0.015822] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x343CE (20170728/psloop-247)
[ 0.015828] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x343D7 (20170728/psloop-247)
[ 0.015881] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x34AC2 (20170728/psloop-247)
[ 0.015886] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x34ACB (20170728/psloop-247)
[ 0.015939] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x351B7 (20170728/psloop-247)
[ 0.015944] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x351C0 (20170728/psloop-247)
[ 0.016054] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x358AC (20170728/psloop-247)
[ 0.016060] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x358B5 (20170728/psloop-247)
[ 0.016072] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x35C5F (20170728/psloop-247)
[ 0.016078] ACPI Warning: Unsupported module-level executable opcode 0x70 at table offset 0x35C68 (20170728/psloop-247)
[ 0.115075] ACPI Error: [_SB_.PCI0.RP05.PXSX] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170728/dswload2-191)
[ 0.115088] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.PCI0.RP04.PXSX, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170728/psparse-550)
[ 0.116545] ACPI Error: [_SB_.PCI0.RP09.PXSX] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170728/dswload2-191)
[ 0.116553] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.PCI0.RP08.PXSX, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170728/psparse-550)
[ 0.117806] ACPI Error: [_SB_.PCI0.RP13.PXSX] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170728/dswload2-191)
[ 0.117814] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.PCI0.RP12.PXSX, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170728/psparse-550)
[ 0.121227] ACPI Error: [\_SB_.PCI0.RP05.PXSX.WIST] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170728/psargs-364)
[ 0.121227] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \CNDP, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170728/psparse-550)
[ 0.121227] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170728/psparse-550)
[ 3.303199] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.PCI0.SPI1.FPNT._CRS, AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE (20170728/psparse-550)
[ 3.303209] ACPI Error: Method execution failed \_SB.PCI0.SPI1.FPNT._CRS, AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE (20170728/uteval-103)
[ 3.304551] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.PCI0.SPI2.FPNT._CRS, AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE (20170728/psparse-550)
[ 3.304559] ACPI Error: Method execution failed \_SB.PCI0.SPI2.FPNT._CRS, AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE (20170728/uteval-103)
[ 4.210615] dpc 0000:00:1d.3:pcie010: DPC error containment capabilities: Int Msg #0, RPExt+ PoisonedTLP+ SwTrigger+ RP PIO Log 4, DL_ActiveErr+
[ 4.395251] RAS: Correctable Errors collector initialized.