Not to sure if this is the right answer, but I upgraded some packages after installation (all of the bugfixed marked packages) and the messages came back. Worth a shot. -- Matt Harrison
"Do not mistake lack of talent for genius" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vincent Meyer, MD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 11:32 PM Subject: [Cooker] might as well go back to Aurora... > Hi folks.. > > This new way of starting up the system, with a pretty picture and most > of the messages gone has some problems. Hopefully it's not too late to > address them before 8.2 goes out the door... > > It looks like most of the startup messages have moved to console > 11? This is fine, but there is NO indication on the main startup screen that > they've moved here. Any errors (like detecting new hardware, for instance) > that sit and wait for operator input are sitting on console 11 while the > user is sitting on console 1, wondering why his machine isn't booting! > (like me about 10 minutes ago, for example) > > Here's a suggestion... we put up the graphic, with the three little > clocks, on console 1. Should we put some kind of "alive bug" - something that > shows that the machine IS doing something, even if we're not putting all > of the messages up? > > Another suggestion - a message to look on the other screen if > the system hangs? Like a "Hit <ctrl> <F11> for startup message" ? > > Vinny > > >
