IBM did some work regarding this recently. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html?ca=dgr-lnxw11-obg-BootFast The biggest set of problems is figuring out what can be parallelized, and what needs to be sequential. Personally I think that starting up an xserver is not the best way to ensure a speedy boot process. We do have bootsplash availible. You can also look at the work that gentoo has done in this area http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=4 . Their initscripts allow for dependencies which allows for an easily maintainable parallelized boot process. Unfortunately their runlevels do not conform to either LSB or POSIX, I forget which one, but they do work quickly. -- Christopher Hotchkiss (813)960-9273 http://www.post227.org
