> 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, Thanks for that I'll have a lok into it. -- Martin Hooper http://www.martinjh.myby.co.uk