How to speed up startup?

[Sam Tygier]

hotplug is slow on my via epia, especially if i have things plugged into usb (mouse and keyboard). i think the problem might be specific to some usb chipsets.

Shixin Zeng wrote:
> The system startup takes a very long time. In particular, hotplug
> takes about 20 seconds to finish on my box, while takes several
> seconds on my roommate's.
> The hardware are almost the same powerful, on some degree, my hardware
> is more powerful than his. So I can't understand why my hoary startup
> is much slower than his. The possible significant difference is: My
> box, sid(installed 2 years ago)->warty->hoary; and his, warty->hoary.