Didn't centos have a boot splash that can show the boot process in a small console window ? Or was it SuSe ? So you get the pretty booting splash with a nice progress bar, but if you want, you can click on an arrow to open the console and watch the boot process. It's both "enterprisey" and informative.
----- "Soren Hansen" <[email protected]> wrote: > The boot process as it is (and has been for years) already doesn't > give > > a whole lot of information. You usually have correlate its output with > > syslog and/or dmesg and/or deamon specific log files to really narrow > > down on a problem. > > > > That said, Plymouth is actually supposed to make this /better/. I'm > not > > sure if that's going to happen for Lucid (it's not really my area), > but > > the idea is that since there's something in charge of collecting > output > > from boot scripts and presenting it to the user, that something can > also > > put this information in a log file. This means that that anyhing you > see > > during boot should end up in a log file which should alleviate the > need > > for looking at the boot sequence. > > > > Yes, that's a lot of "should"'s, but I'm afraid that's all I have > right > > now. Someone else may be able to weigh in with some more authoritative > > information or at least more detail. > That's simply not true. /You/ may not have asked for it, but it's > > certainly been asked for. I myself, for instance, don't mind a pretty > > boot sequence (brief as it may be). > I like to think that we do. However, please consider that the > community > > is diverse as are its opinions on different matters. -- Nikolai K. Bochev System Administrator -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
