Here's another example of the same sort of idea: http://elinux.org/images/f/f7/RightApproachMinimalBootTimes.pdf http://elinux.org/images/f/f7/RightApproachMin

Here's another example of the same sort of idea: http://elinux.org/images/f/f7/RightApproachMinimalBootTimes.pdf http://elinux.org/images/f/f7/RightApproachMinimalBootTimes.... Also under 1 second, and the approaches this guy took are seriously impressive. Lots of educational tidbits and "good-to-know"s in here even for non-embedded types. Reads very quickly too.