On 01/02/2014 02:11 PM, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > With newer computers containing solid state drives a progress bar may > only display for one second. > > Do these machines need to see it
Well, with newer machines you can argue that it not required to have a progress indicator. On IDE and SATA you have rather good transfer rates, unless you are interfacing an old CF card (or older SD). However, I'm booting on a (10 year old) 600MHz C6 cpu (mini-itx board) from USB running at max. 12MBit/s (usb-v1.1). It takes ages to get the images loaded (~1 minute). Even the grub bootstrap takes ~10..15 seconds to load into the menu. It already was a challenge to get the OS installed (took 4 hours). For these long processes, it is appreciated to have an indication that the system is "alive and kicking". -- Greetings Bertho (disclaimers are disclaimed) _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
