Changes in booting with ubuntu-server 10.04

[Egbert Jan]

Hi again Soren,

Because IF I need to attach a console I do that to catch each and every
information that could help me find any problems during boot.

I'm from a old era. VAXVMS on DEC mini's. There were only servers and
character terminals. There were no VGA output devices. I want (and I think
many with me) the simple all revealing line oriented logging during the boot
process on a simple serial or console port. No bells, no wistles. If
something goes wrong during the boot we want to know and have informative
output at hand on (simple) output devices. Not hidden in high level messages
in fancy screens.

But what heck, nobody asked to have fancy server bootspash screens on
servers. If that is the new way of working, fine but just give us the
possibility to have a boot option to have all starting services scrolling
over the screen (and hopefully an 'OK' on the right).

No hard feelings, I also want this distro to be the best. 
Egbert Jan (NL)

PS I switched from years and years of Mandriva usage to Ubuntu because I got
the impression that Ubuntu developers WERE paying attention to what the
community wants. 


> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: 'Soren Hansen' [mailto:soren at ubuntu.com] 
> Verzonden: donderdag 25 maart 2010 23:02
> Aan: Egbert Jan
> Onderwerp: Re: Changes in booting with ubuntu-server 10.04
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:20:20PM +0100, Egbert Jan wrote:
> > I just expressed my fear that the Good Old boot messages are being 
> > replaced by nothing-saying desktop output. IF 
> ubuntu/canonical really 
> > keeps this new booting as default with no easy install 
> option, I'm off 
> > to Debian, but with bleeding heart.
> 
> I still don't understand your argument. Why do you care 
> what's on the VGA output (or not) if you don't have a monitor 
> attached to it?
> 
> -- 
> Soren Hansen
> Ubuntu Developer
> http://www.ubuntu.com/
>