Maybe you already know this?
MACH BOOT is a very fast CD booting Linux. It boots Linux desktop in less than 10 sec from CD.
Check it out please. http://www.machboot.com/
Then, why I mail here?
The current issue for making boot faster is, not a Linux issue but BIOS issue. Linux can boot less than 10 sec, but BIOS uses more than 20 sec!.
ANY HELP?. Of course, using Linux BIOS is one choice.
--- Okajima, Jun. Tokyo, Japan.
http://www.machboot.com/ http://www.digitalinfra.co.jp/ http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070917