>On 9/10/07, Martin Hooper <martin.hooper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What are the minimum services that you need to load up at boot? > > Need a list so I can speed up my booting somewhat as it seems to me > that there are a load of stuff starting at boot that I really don't > need. > > -- > Martin Hooper > http://www.martinjh.myby.co.uk > Although I can't answer your question, I can point you in the right direction: Article on how to boot Fedora in under 25 seconds http://www.improvedsource.com/view.php/linux-system/2/ & this one for the challenge http://www.improvedsource.com/view.php/Linux-System/3/ Article from IBM on improving Linux boot times http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html And here's a tool to map out your boot process and where the lags may be: http://www.bootchart.org/ Hope this helps, Jacques B.