Bootcharting
The chart shows how the Ubuntu boot process is going on my 5 years old Thinkpad T60. Bootchart utility does such charts automatically. If you are interesting in how easy it is to enable such bootcharting read below. Installing bootchart You need bootchart and pybootchartgui apt-get install bootchart apt-get install pybootchartgui That will automatically add bootchart logger to your grub configuration. Restart your machine and look for an image file in /var/log/bootchart directory....