On 4/15/06, Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There's "chkconfig kudzu off", but IIRC, kudzu is deprecated in favor of > dynamic hardware checking in hal. Kudzu seems pretty fast these days > anyway. You might save a few seconds. Thanks. Actually I found what was told to me by a guru once to speed up boot time. Compile modules into your kernel where possible. The article given by Peter talks about that and that's where I remembered being told that before. It's not a big deal. But I like efficiency. I tried the early-login tip specified in one of the articles but couldn't get that to work. I get the following error (and haven't had time to research how to trouble shoot it): "error reading information on service gdm-early-login: No such file or directory" Jacques B.