Changes in booting with ubuntu-server 10.04

['Soren Hansen']

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 09:42:19AM +0100, Egbert Jan wrote:
> Because IF I need to attach a console I do that to catch each and
> every information that could help me find any problems during boot.

The boot process as it is (and has been for years) already doesn't give
a whole lot of information. You usually have correlate its output with
syslog and/or dmesg and/or deamon specific log files to really narrow
down on a problem.

That said, Plymouth is actually supposed to make this /better/. I'm not
sure if that's going to happen for Lucid (it's not really my area), but
the idea is that since there's something in charge of collecting output
from boot scripts and presenting it to the user, that something can also
put this information in a log file. This means that that anyhing you see
during boot should end up in a log file which should alleviate the need
for looking at the boot sequence.

Yes, that's a lot of "should"'s, but I'm afraid that's all I have right
now. Someone else may be able to weigh in with some more authoritative
information or at least more detail.

> But what heck, nobody asked to have fancy server bootspash screens on
> servers.

That's simply not true. /You/ may not have asked for it, but it's
certainly been asked for. I myself, for instance, don't mind a pretty
boot sequence (brief as it may be).

> PS I switched from years and years of Mandriva usage to Ubuntu because
> I got the impression that Ubuntu developers WERE paying attention to
> what the community wants.

I like to think that we do. However, please consider that the community
is diverse as are its opinions on different matters.

-- 
Soren Hansen
Ubuntu Developer
http://www.ubuntu.com/
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