This article shows how to reduce boot time for Fedora 17, but the recipe can also be applied to 18, 19 and 20. The target is to get a fast booting system with NetworkManager running and gdm displaying the login screen as fast as possible. The system I use here is a Lenovo T420s (2x2x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2540M CPU @ 2.60GHz) with an INTEL SSDSA2BW160G3L harddrive. First we choose a manual disk lay