The 9.10 boot loader progress bar

[John Dong]

The Upstart event-driven bootup doesn't really have the notion of progress, unlike the old SysV Init script bootup. It's hard to provide a linear measure of progress...

The same thing happened in OS X -- in 10.4 they introduced a parallelized init daemon and the "progress" bar was just a simple timer (counting to how long it took the LAST time to boot up), and in 10.5+ they just got rid of it altogether.

The same can be said about Windows and their parallelized startup control mechanism.


On Jan 25, 2010, at 7:09 AM, Amahdy wrote:

> I'm wondering why starting from 9.10 the boot loader started to be an infinite loop progressbar (like windows always does)?? it was better in previous versions that I'm able to track the percent of loaded and what's remaining, or at least know that there is a progress (in slow computers) instead of staying like that without knowing whether the loader hangs and will never load or there is a slow progress and the user will watch waiting it ...
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> If this was because gathering the information before starting the loader for a progress-bar tracking takes some time, then I believe +|- 2 seconds is not the big deal that prevents this feature from existing ... or what's your thoughts?
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> One more thing is that, the loading could be cooler for some ppl (like me) if it was text-based not graphical (like before that or like servers), to watch out what's happening (eg. problems, errors, notices ... etc) so if there was a key (like ESC) to switch, and an option to make it permanent text-based boot.
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