The 9.10 boot loader progress bar

[Amahdy]

I was just about to write about my experience with grup2 here:

I thought it's menu.lst that needs to be edited, but after googling I
figured that things got changed in grup2 so I opened /etc/default/grup
The first attempt was GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash"
I waited to see the splitted splash-screen as I suggested before that in
this thread, and here is what I got:
1- Wait too much until the splash-screen appears...
2- Only 4 or 5 lines with pre-loaded "OK" near them, which is completely
useless for a while then suddenly it's all loaded and login screen...
Conclusion: pretty ugly, useless and far away from my imagined suggestion.
(is it due to the non-linear boot)?

The second attempt was commenting out that line, here is the results:
1- Boot time faster about 60% (measured twice from 49 seconds with splash to
31 seconds without)
2- Annoying splash appears again at the end of the boot process for 1 second
or less
3- The boot text is all annoying and not readable, not like the case for
fedora, there is not even any [OK] or [FAIL] or anything just something
similar to script-code

So now I'm pretty convinced that the boot-text of Ubuntu is useless and
maybe it needs a refactoring to be more relevant, I don't know if this is
something really related to Ubuntu or grup (and I won't go to test the last
version of fedora now) but just to mention in this list that I really
suggest to take a look again at the boot process and no this is not
in-important even if we boot once a day.

As what I remember, fedora 9 had greyed out icons that got coloured once
loaded too, now it's completely different and still the reason is unknown
(maybe the non-linearity too like our case here) ... I was thinking about
the multiple downloader something like:

Module 1 [----------------------/                ]
Module 2 [*********** DONE ***********]
Module 3 [------------\                          ]
Module 4 [-----------------|                     ]
Module 5 [------------------------------\        ]

And here all major components will be listed as Module 1 .. etc (or even
maybe their icon picture instead)

Going into each module and get information about the loading-progress is the
missing part (still unknown for me) ...



On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Charlie Kravetz
> <cjk at teamcharliesangels.com <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss>> wrote:
>
>
> >* Indeed, the first indication should be when I see that the system
> *>* stops. Unfortunately, I can not see that. There is no indicator to tell
> *>* me the system stopped. My system takes a minute or two to start up.
>
> *>* Without the indicator, I can NOT tell if it stopped working.
> *
> I doubt that is true. If your system did not finish starting a few
> minutes after it was supposed to, would that not indicate to you that
>
>
> something is amiss? If you want to see boot messages, it's easy enough
> to change. Run:
>
>   sudo nano /etc/default/grub
>
> Comment out the line beginning with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT. The
> quiet and splash parameters are what tell the kernel not to show boot
>
>
> messages. Now run:
>
>   sudo update-grub
>
> Reboot. Now you will see boot messages when the system starts.
>
>

-- Amahdy AbdElAziz
IT & Development Manager
3D Diagnostix Inc. www.3ddx.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/amahdyabdelaziz
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