The 9.10 boot loader progress bar

[Alexandre Strube]

However, a certain number of events must happen - be it in parallel or not -
to the boot be considered more or less complete. I wouldn't find that hard
to increase a bar a given percentile according to the number of events
completed in relation to the total number of events required for a system to
boot.

BTW, I never saw that behavior on OS X 10.4.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:57 PM, John Dong <jdong at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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 ...
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> -- Amahdy AbdElAziz
> IT & Development Manager
> 3D Diagnostix Inc. www.3ddx.com
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