After trying out the alpha and beta releases of Ubuntu I am finding that the booting method of 10.04 is greatly altered. I understand why there were made, to improve the boot time and make it look nicer, but they seem to contrast with how a server should boot.
With a traditional unix-like startup a server administrator expects to see what exactly is booting on the system and if there are any failures or warnings. It seems that this is not the case in 10.04 so far. When I first installed Alpha 3, grub automatically booted to the first OS listing without even listing the menu (I understand you can use ESC to go into the menu) and then plymouth took over displaying a splash screen until the login prompt without showing any boot information. Are there plans for the 10.04 server version to keep with a traditional server start-up? Or is this the default we should expect upon install? I've changed a few things, such as enabling the grub menu with a 5 second timeout, removing plymouth on install, but there are still a few bits that make booting seem odd. The first is that the systems boots by default to tty7, displaying a blank screen like it's expecting X to start up. The second is I'm unable to find a way to have upstart display any information about what init or init.d scripts are running. There are a few bug reports on these items, but they're not necessarily "bugs" it seems since this is how the desktop flavor is suppose to work. With 10.04 server can we expect a traditional server boot or are individual admins going to have to enable these extra bits of verbosity manually? -- Micheal Waltz SMG Unix Infrastructure Qualcomm Inc. Phone: 858-845-6083 Cell: 858-882-7079 -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
