Flight 4 Live-CD usage report

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 09:40:26PM +0100, Andreas Schildbach wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> >>- during bootup, the screen mode switches between text (about 5 
> >>seconds), then graphical usplash (about 40 seconds), then text again 
> >>(about 1 minute).
> >
> >That last change is probably indicative of a bug; watch to see which 
> >service
> >was starting up at that time and why it took longer than expected.  It is a
> >safety feature of usplash that if the boot process does not go as expected,
> >it reverts to text mode.
> 
> What is the definition of "expected"? Is "switch to text mode" triggered 
> by output to stderr?

A timeout with no progress indication.

> >There is no way to avoid the initial change from text to graphics; PC video
> >cards start in text mode and this is beyond the control of the operating
> >system.
> 
> Isn't the graphical boot loader already graphical? Why is it needed to 
> switch to text mode between the graphical boot loader and (graphical) 
> usplash. Is it maybe because of 
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/kernel-package/+bug/26521 ?

You said it switched from text to graphics to text.  That bug doesn't look
related, no.

> >The graphical boot menu lets you adjust these.
> 
> Where? I could select language, VGA mode and accessibility options, but 
> I did not find a way to change keymap and timezone (via menu; I don't 
> know about kernel options).

Tollef?

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 - mdz