I'm booting from a CD.

No special bootoptions ... just the default "/boot/grmlmedium/linux26
/boot/grmlmedium/initrd.gz boot=live apm=power-off vga=791 guiet nomce".

When I added "bootfrom=removable" to the options it actually reduced the time by
about 1 minute.  It now takes about 70 seconds.

We seem to be headed in the right direction.  Any more things to tweak?

Cheers,
Fletcher