Boot screen: Quiet or not?

[Bart Silverstrim]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 October 2007, Mario Vukelic wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 22:37 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>>> There are cases where a quick message of
>>> a workaround or note during the boot process can give hints of how to
>>> fix a quirk I run into later on.
>> There are better ways for this than a busy boot screen. E.g., enable
>> bootlogging in /etc/default/bootlogd, and/or run dmesg after start,
>> and/or check your logs
> 
> True, but if your machine hangs due to some fs problem  or some other hang,  
> you'd have a tough time running dmesg.

This thread is quickly going to spiral into a rediculously pointless 
quagmire if it doesn't disappear soon. :-)

Let's sum it up.

Some people want a black box.

Other people, like sysadmins, like knowing what the machine is doing and 
  gauge how healthy it is at boot time.

I said, why not just have it as a preference?  Luckily, most systems 
already have that built into hardware, usually as a small button with an 
"O" and "I" marking of some kind on the front of the monitor.  Push it 
if you don't want to see the bootup.  Push it again when the case's 
activity light dies down.

:-)