On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 11:53 -0700, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > > > I think the issue here is how old the machine is. On an older machine, > a blank screen is difficult to deal with. When there is nothing there, > for 5-?? seconds, how does anyone know if the system is stalled or > working? Many of us use old hardware. That hardware is not really going > to reach the 10 second boot anyway. It would be nice to have a way of > knowing without waiting 5 minutes to find out the boot stalled. > > -- > Charlie Kravetz > On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 21:01 +0200, Amahdy wrote: > >>If something goes wrong, I can always hit esc to make the GRUB menu > come up at boot and edit the entry to remove "quiet splash" to see the > messages for debugging. > > How can you determine "If something goes wrong"? in many situations I > can't know if something getting wrong or not maybe everything is ok > and the system loads but there is somehting hidden there that I never > noticed... > > For example couple of years ago, my previous laptop had "fedora 10", > and I noticed that fedora attempt to load some bluetooth device while > my laptop doesn't have any bluetooth in it, I'd never notice that > without the text-loader and although everything works but there is a > little thing out there to remove to at least make things better than > it could be ... > > My brother (a newbie) once asked me why there is a [FAILED] in the > fedora 11 loading, when I fixed it he told me that since months he > thought that his modem is broken and doesn't work and he would never > change his mind until he -as a matter of curiosity- asked me about > this [FAILED]! the point is: he is not technical but he noticed > something and just wanted to report it... > > > > -- Amahdy AbdElAziz
The *option* to display the messages was something that the design team was interested in fixing for the the Lucid cycle. But AFAIK, i dont think there has been any progress regarding that.[since there were bigger issues to fix] You might try contacting the design team... -- Cheers, Vish -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
