The 9.10 boot loader progress bar

[John Moser]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:57 AM, 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...

This is why I disable 'quiet' ... my boot screen is like


Loading kernel modules.... OK
Mounting drives... OK
Starting networking... OK


It's familiar, and when something stalls it's suddenly not familiar.
I don't have to care WHAT it's doing, just as long as it's doing
something, and telling me what it's doing.  Apple used to do this in
System 7 and System 8 at least by showing icons during boot,
signifying what part of the boot process it was currently in.

Of course the new boot setup seems to cover that up while in X11 boot
mode... sigh, small steps forward, giant leaps backward.