> 1) I need my device to be active 5 seconds after power-up. Can Linux
>    come up that quickly?

Forget it.
The BIOS will NOT finish the hardware test within 15-20 secs.
Linux will boot in another 10-15 seconds.

> 2) I can not use the shutdown command to turn off the device. The
>    device will be turned off when power is removed. Will I incur any
>    file system corruption issues?

The system will run on a ramdisk. This will be destroyed of course
but flash data remains intact unless you want to write it.

Regards

Gabor
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