I'm sorry I forgot, who was responsible for the boot-time optimizations, so I am sending it to the devel. after the first work on that, my bootime used to be at ~70s and increased now again. I am not sure with which update it started, but I think it was sometime after linux went final. here is my bootchart http://www.madman2k.net/files/dapper-20060125-1.png M2k