Archive:HOW-TO:Improve boot time on general Linux distributions

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Based on the XBMC Community Forum discussion here (link) we have started a article here in the XBMC Online Manual wiki on how to "HOW-TO improving the (perceived) boot time on a general Linux distribution".

Feel free to here post ideas and discussion about how to improve the (perceived) startup time of XBMC Live from a cold boot (whether from Live CD, Live USB, or from a harddrive installation of XBMC Live, or any other Linux distro for that matter).

XBMC Live implemented boot-time optimizations

This subsection of the article is meant to list optimizations that are already implemented in the XBMC Live distro by Team-XBMC.

• Feel free to list all already implemented optimizations here.

XBMC Live Boot Time is HORRIFIC!

1 minute and 55 sections before the menu accepts commands. This is from a USB boot. I have 1GB of RAM and an Athlon 3200 (some old single-core jobbie). USB 2.0, of course.

How long would it take to simply load a 1GB memory image from a USB stick directly into RAM and then BAM! jump to the start of program? I'm guessing much less than 1:55, but I'll do the calcs when I have some time. Has anyone thought of simply putting the program image directly on the USB and loading it directly to RAM?

What could possibly be taking so long? XBMC is not really suitable as a media center *appliance* with a boot time like this. It still feels more like a hobby project, and I will switch as soon as I see anything even 5 seconds faster.