For a ten-second boot?! It'd take longer to load! :P

Seriously though; it would require some osftware like Plymouth, which in turn requirtes a lot of work with framebuffering, VESA/VGA graphics etc. that I reckon has been trimmed out of the boot process deliberately.

you 10 sec ?? wow . How do you do that ?

@seawolf

You got my boot time beat by one second. Congrats lol. SliTaz is the fastest booting distro I ever used.



Rupp

So ? a simple picture could be ok ?

I'm told it would have to be worked in to the initramfs before the root partition is loaded, etc., some pretty hacky work that is certainly over my head!
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth

I'm no expert but perhaps the easiest would be modifying bootchartd?

I can't quite work out where things start to get graphical; surely the kernel sorts out the framebuffering and resolutions, but it needs to know that before the kernel boots in order to contain it in a pretty picture?

Gah. Too early in the morning.