[xubuntu-users] Blank screen period during boot.

[Peter Flynn]

On 03/24/2015 03:35 AM, Rob Ward wrote:
> I tended to put the 'blank' period down to Linux spending time
> negotiating different bits of hard ware (eg waiting for USB drives,
> network connections Lan and Wan, cameras etc???).  

That all makes sense, it's just that the logo or something should remain
on display while it does all this.

> My recollections of early Linux were of great long lists of installation
> checks scrolling past.  I was suprised to see it happening again on my
> Raspberry Pi !!

If you boot one of the "credit-card" CD micro-Linuxes like Damn Small
Linux or Austrumi, you still get this, because everything "unnecessary"
has been stripped out.

I don't think users mind that so much...it's having the screen go black
with no cursor and no progress bar that worries them.

///Peter