hi,

would like to boot up debian boot time
seems like runit-run is a god package for doing so

Package: runit-run (0.6.0)
a UNIX init scheme with service supervision
runit is a replacement for SysV-init and other init schemes. It runs on Debian GNU/Linux, *BSD, MacOSX, and Solaris, and may be easily adapted to other Unix operating systems. runit implements a simple three-stage concept. Stage 1 performs the system's one-time initialization tasks. Stage 2 starts the system's uptime services (via the runsvdir program). Stage 3 handles the tasks necessary to shutdown and halt or reboot.
See http://smarden.org/runit/ for more information.
This package replaces the /sbin/init program and configures runit to run as process no 1 after the next reboot.

do i just install the package and reboot or do i have to do some configuration afterwards?

i'm running debian 3.1 sarge kernel 2.6.8

grtz

Not sure if it goes back into Sarge, but if you look at the Etch rc script, you can change CONCURRENCY to none(default), shell, or smartpar. So it looks like the developers are working on adding this functionality into the core. You might check to see if Sarge has these changes and if so play with them to see if they produce the desired results.