1. A method for providing accelerated loading of an operating system in a computer system, the method comprising: loading a portion of boot data in a compressed form that is associated with a portion of a boot data list for booting the computer system into a memory; accessing the loaded portion of the boot data in the compressed form from the memory; decompressing the accessed portion of the boot data in the compressed form at a rate that decreases a boot time of the operating system relative to loading the operating system utilizing boot data in an uncompressed form; and updating the boot data list, wherein the decompressed portion of boot data comprises a portion of the operating system.