I'm trying to get the fastest boot possible. My application is a "consumer" product and I don't want the user to feel like he/she is booting a PC. My device uses an AMD Geode single board PC. I used the ALIX release and only loaded the bare basics at install. XWindows is not installed because the user will never see a desktop, just a dot matrix LCD screen. Currently, it boots at 15 seconds after the BIOS load. This time is great. I would like to do better if possible. Thanks.