I have worked very hard on this area and your article has a number of problems and could go even further.

here I keep track of all this type of things.

In particular:

1) mounting in parallel does not work if you have say /, /usr and /usr/local in different devices, you may end up mounting /usr/local before /usr, man mount has more details on this. So you should at least add a warning.

2) RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP=”yes” is not very good: at any given point it is doing 2 tasks or 1 task and a busy loop, so it is not very parallel. I have written an appropiate patch that is trully parallel with no busy wait. You can find it here

3) The env-update thing has been fixed some time ago. So your change does not do anything.

4) Your modules-update patch has number of issues and is just broken. Check Here for a discution about them and the proper fix.

5) If you applied my parallel patch, try to remove unneded stuff from boot runlevel, such as alsa.

6) Remove consolefont, it is not needed on x86 systems.

7) I have also written a patch to start xdm before other services. Just adding it to boot won’t do it. This is specially good after my parallel startup patch.

8) You may want to make a chart out of your boot process to see what the bottleneck is. I made an ebuild for that. Check Here for some samples. This will conflict with the parallel startup patch. If you want both, just mail me.

All of this has been discussed to death in Here. Search for the posts from “castorilo” (myself) in page 5 for nice instrucctions.