Boot screen: Quiet or not?

[Liam Proven]

On 06/10/2007, John Richard Moser <nigelenki at comcast.net> wrote:

> That's an interesting way of doing it.

There speaks someone who came into Linux with Ubuntu, at a guess?

Long before Ubuntu had been thought of, SuSE was doing this. A
graphical loading screen with a logo and so on, just like Ubuntu later
re-implemented, but with the option to see the bootup messages without
changing vconsole or anything else.

The only argument I can see /against/ it is that ISTM that the Linux
kernel boots much faster when it's in "quiet" mode, which is to say,
not displaying console debug output.

>  I still prefer the non-quiet
> messages ("Preparing restricted drivers" "Starting cups printing system"
> etc) during the boot process;

That would do if it was all I could get, at least as an option. I'd
rather that than just a progress bar, and I /hate/ the modern pretend
"progress bars" which just show an animated bar going back and forth.
This tells you nothing about how far it's got, just that it's doing
something!

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