Being terribly annoyed by a 30 second boot time, I went through and built a nfsroot setup. With a kernel having no disk drivers at all. The results are encouraging aproxiamently: 5 seconds until my linuxBIOS code runs. 1 second to uncompress the kernel from flash 3 seconds to run through the kernel. 6 seconds to run the init scripts before the login prompt. Which comes out to about 17 seconds total. I know the math doesn't quite add up but those are roughly the right numbers. So for those times we care about boot speed unnecessary devices can really slow you down. That plus slow flash chips... At least the numbers I'm seeing in a ball park I can believe in. Eric
