Changes in booting with ubuntu-server 10.04

[Nikolai K. Bochev]

Didn't centos have a boot splash that can show the boot process in a small console window ? Or was it SuSe ?
So you get the pretty booting splash with a nice progress bar, but if you want, you can click on an arrow to open the console and watch the boot process.
It's both "enterprisey" and informative.

----- "Soren Hansen" <soren at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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.


> 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).


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

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Nikolai K. Bochev 
System Administrator