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by DanBC 4634 days ago
There's the famous "5 second boot" for Fedora on an EEE PC 701. That's a weak machine with a small, old, SSD. It's an "honest" boot time - from power on to desktop up with idle CPU and disk.

(https://lwn.net/Articles/299483/)

Here's an article trimming boot time of Fedora 17 to 3 seconds.

(http://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/fedora-17-boot-opti...)

There's some overlap between the two different approaches.

If you wanted some esoteric hardware you could make an always powered RAM disc.