Michael James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 31 October 2006 9:36 pm, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: >> On Monday 30 October 2006 17:53, Rasmus Plewe wrote: >> > If a fsck at boot time occurs >> > - kill the splash screen (usually the computer boots in 3 minutes, now >> > it's still unchanged after 10 minutes. Something must be broken. >> > Poweroff/on. Does still not boot. Damn Linux, doesn't work. Changing >> > OS because Linux doesn't work for me). > > This is frighteningly true, here are 2 suggestions, > we probably need them both. > > 1) While an fsck is occurring in non-verbose startup mode > we need a message to that effect with a progress bar. > > 2) On shutdown; if a routine fsck WOULD happen next reboot, > the OS asks if the user minds converting the shutdown to a reboot. > The fsck can happen on a fresh boot but not when the computer is needed. > Once booted the system puts up a window a la Mac, > waits 2 minutes and shuts back down automatically. > With the fsck done, the next reboot happens normally.
Could you add those to the feature wishlist in our wiki so that it does not get forgotten? > > How long does it have to take to boot Linux? > Solaris used to usually boot quickly, unless you touched /reconfigure, > then it would go through all the hardware detection. > Is anyone working on an "express boot" > that gets the system up quickly based on stored hardware configs? > > With all the hotplug functionality we now have > hardware detection at boot is a bit unnecessary. > > michaelj > > PS: I'm sad about loosing reiserfs You're not loosing it - just the default is changed. Feel free to change it for your installs, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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