I have a macbook pro 2009 and install Zorin os 17. Everytime i start up or restart the system, it will black screen and take about 3-4 min to load into the logo and login screen. Is there anything i can do to speed up the boot process or it just a hardware issue?
Try run this command and post the outcome;
systemd-analyze blame
Some MacBook's have secure boot. Have you ensured it is Disabled?
18.856s plymouth-quit-wait.service
10.616s gpu-manager.service
6.528s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
2.649s dev-sda2.device
2.114s snapd.seeded.service
1.259s fwupd.service
1.237s e2scrub_reap.service
1.178s udisks2.service
1.178s networkd-dispatcher.service
1.111s snapd.service
1.009s systemd-journal-flush.service
825ms accounts-daemon.service
654ms ModemManager.service
567ms power-profiles-daemon.service
524ms polkit.service
521ms avahi-daemon.service
516ms bluetooth.service
502ms NetworkManager.service
491ms systemd-rfkill.service
476ms iio-sensor-proxy.service
437ms switcheroo-control.service
416ms cups.service
408ms thermald.service
How do i do that?
Hope this link is useful. I don't use Macs, but it seems straightforward:
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For your old hardware Zorin lite would be the better choice because it needs less ressources.
If you have a nvidia card and don't want to install Zorin lite (which uses only Xorg), please switch to Xorg. Zorin core/pro uses Wayland by default which causes problems with nvidia cards and is not matured .
Reboot and then at loginscreen click on your profile, then a cog icon on the screen appears where you can set "Zorin desktop on Xorg".
If I understand correctly, some Macbookpro from early 2009 still have a 32bit EFI. If you have such a device, a Linux distribution that supports 32bit would be more suitable.
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how about switch from wayland to X11 system?
I already switched to Zorin OS, the key that i search online that suppose to press during boot up couldn't get me to the secure boot option.
Reboot and then at loginscreen click on your profile, then a cog icon on the screen appears where you can set "Zorin desktop on Xorg".
I don't have that screen. it automatically jump to the logo and then login screen.
You can try this to turn off Wayland:
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My Macbook pro doesn't have secure boot.
You change this setting after your login screen has appeared. Just click on your user name without entering the password. Then you'll see the cogwheel icon.
But the gear method won't stop Wayland from being used on the login screen itself, which is where the problem is occurring, if I understand correctly.
If Wayland is the problem here, @Slacker needs to completely disable Wayland at the configuration level.
@chronosJ That's right, I hadn't considered that. Thanks for the correction!
I found a solution for Macs you could try
Open terminal, enter
"sudo -i", then enter your password.
"nautilus" (enter your file manager here)
When filemanager is opened as root, go to
etc/default/grub
Open the file with a texteditor and add "tsc=unstable"
to the line
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
so that it looks like this (you could have more parameters than quiet splash - Edit: If so, please keep them there)
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash tsc=unstable"
Save the file.
Enter in terminal
"sudo update-grub"
Then reboot.
(If it doesn't help, remove tsc=unstable from the file, save it and update grub again.)
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This does work and changed to Xorg. Thanks.
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Glad to hear it!
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