Comment 14 for bug 649591

What Ingo said - for servers, not having a console progress bar is *terrible*, since for servers we often aren't physically there. So even with e.g. remote VNC access we get nothing but a blank screen and have no idea if it's actually even doing a fsck, or locked up for some other reason. All of this while customers are calling frantically screaming at us because their server is down.

As a stopgap we're now booting them into rescue mode from external media and running the fscks manually, but all of this causes unnecessary hassle, stress and increased downtime. Would be much nicer to have our progress bar back like we always had before.