OK, so we'll focus on those bottom 2 lines beginning with
# swap was on
That is
two lines, which you'll find if you use your mouse cursor at the right "handle" beside the scrollbar to drag the handle to the right, and the 2 zeroes will pop back up to make one line.
Remember you can use Alt-Tab to switch between instructions I give you and another active window such as Terminal.
Read this Post to the end first.
In Terminal on Serena, type in and enter
This will open the GUI-based text editor "xed" (used by Mint Cinnamon) in a window, Terminal will remain open behind it.
In xed, you should see those bottom 2 lines just as they were in Terminal.
Executable Text Files such as fstab often have lines beginning with a #, usually a # and a space (neater).
These lines are "comments", usually written by the programmer with the initial software, but we can add them ourselves.
The lines that do
not have a # are instructions to our computer. Once we precede one of those lines with a hash, we are "commenting it out".
Back in your xed window, move your mouse to, and click, the line beginning
When you see the insertion point (perhaps blinking) just left of the U, place a # and a space, so that the line now looks like
etcetera
We can save the file in one of two ways.
Either
From the window menu File - Save
OR
top right-corner small x to close, it will prompt you, choose Save.
xed's window closes and you will likely be returned to the prompt in Terminal that was open underneath xed.
Type exit to close Terminal.
Reboot the computer and when you get to Grub Menu choose the default of Serena.
See if the startup time is reduced considerably.
If that does not work properly with Serena, let us know.
If it shortens the startup time, then you can enter
Sylvia and repeat the same procedure with
its /etc/fstab. On completion, reboot and choose to enter Sylvia again and see if
its startup time is reduced. Report back.
IMPORTANT NOTE
When you use the xed Text Editor in
Serena, and then close it, it
should return you to the Terminal prompt, that is
Code:
whazzupdoc@richard-Satellite-C655 ~ $
However in
Sylvia, due to slight differences in the versions, closing xed may just leave you hanging in Terminal.
In either case, you can just press ^C , that is Ctrl-c , and the process will terminate and return you to the prompt.
Let us know how you fare.
Wizard