Speeding up the boot process... maybe

Inspired by this:

http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/

I want to take a look at my bootup, and see what I can cut/gut/move. Cool.

But I should say, I'm not having much luck yet. ;)

I yum installed bootchart. I.e.

yum install bootchart

Modified my "/boot/grub/grub.conf" file adding "init=/sbin/bootchartd" to my kernel line. And if I understood the instructions correctly, that should have done it.

However, I've looked around the system ("/var/log/bootchart.tgz", "/tmp/bootchart*"), and I'm not generating anything yet.

I suppose I did copy my old grub.conf to grub.conf.bak... I hope there's not some clever feature in Grub that would use that one instead.

Oh well. I guess I'll come back to this another day.