r u sure? this will help?

@seanmcken,

The N900 does not do actively anything to artificially slow-down the boot process (I think that's pretty obvious, but anyway).

Meaning: if you want to make the booting faster, then you need to stop the N900 from loading something. Meaning you have to uninstall that something.

I gave you a few examples (camera-ui, nokiamessaging, calendar). Obviously removing those programs will remove that functionality as well, so it's up to you to decide what's important and what's not.

If you want to experiment for yourself (have the flasher and USB cable at hand though), have a look at the directory /etc/event.d.

There you have the scripts that load/do stuff during booting. Have a look at the stuff there and see if there's something you might not need.

You also have the /etc/Xsession.d directory. The scripts there are run once X is running.

Not strictly true. Playing the welcome video is (what I would call) an obvious example of artificially slowing down the boot process.
But I understand what you mean and I agree

I've played around in /etc/event.d and yes, managed to make my N900 unbootable at one point but I also managed to rescue it by launching the console from BootMenu. Just throwing it in as an alternative to a flasher + USB cable.

Thanks for the addition. Depending on the question (and the OP) it may be best to limit the available choices...

sudo gainroot
apt-get purge hildon-welcome hildon-welcome-default-logo

its better than tweaking anything cuz it helped me for faster booting

apt-get remove hildon-startup-progress

To remove 5 dots startup animation, should save a few cycles.

Or perhaps edit /etc/pmconfig and set smartreflex to 0 and max cpu speed to 1GHz.

This means it will run at 1 GHz till kernel-config kicks in, this might shave some seconds off...or you might just get a bootloop.

hmm its like impossible to remove thise dots i guess. and i hate that even though doing that apt-get purge...... its still go on showing that dots.

I remember there was some guy who made a whole analysis about what can be removed, can't seem to find that thread again. Or was it you, Reinob?

Like the idea I can remove the useless video I never watch, even if I replaced it with a better one :P

BTW: Xsession.post is a bit safer than Xsession.d. Thanks vi_, works even better than event.d

wow wow i never did anything good here

I completely removed the dots in my "dev-N900" and in my "spare-N900" as well. But I've never documented anything I've done so far.

Looking at the dpkg list, there is nothing with "welcome" on it (although this is already known).

With "startup" I have:
hildon-initscripts
maemo-launcher
osso-af-startup
osso-startup-wizard[*]

As long as you don't touch any of the above, you can remove anything that has the word startup in it, most importanly: hildon-startup-progress
[*] Add.: funny. I just checked in my "normal-N900" and there I removed hildon-startup-progress *and* osso-startup-wizard (that's the one asking for regional settings and time when you take the battery out for too long). I therefore declare this operation to be safe

DISCLAIMER: I don't have the .deb with me at the moment, so I cannot look at preinstall, postinstall, etc. so I *may* have done something besides just apt-get purge'ing it.

But I really don't think so, so feel free to purge it.