No text output in early boot process
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plymouth |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| plymouth (Ubuntu) |
New
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
10.04's new boot process uses kernel modeswitching and fades smoothly from the boot screen to X and the GDM login screen.
However, before the machine gets as far as the graphical stage, there is a significant pause with lots of disk activity. The system is clearly doing something but there is no indication onscreen of what.
Windows has this issue as well and used to display a short text-mode loader before it got as far as the graphical loader. This is rarely visible on modern Windows systems, but was very handy. Some kind of feedback that the system is doing something would be helpful, even if just a text-mode line that said "Loading Ubuntu..." and added dots for the early, pre-graphics stage of loading.
The is what the system used to do before switching over to the new graphical boot process.
| Hercules_100_98 (hercules-100-98) wrote | #1 |
| affects: | hundredpapercuts → plymouth |
| Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
I'm pretty sure removing all boot text was a deliberate design decision, but I can see your point.
However, on my system, there is a blinking cursor in the top corner before the splash screen appears, and there occasionally is some boot text but its too brief to see what it is.
What experiences are other uses having?