Boot screen: Quiet or not?

[Steve Lamb]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 23:11 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
>>     Should is not will.  Showing the messages up front ensures it will.

> AFAICT it shows messages n failure TODAY

    So what you're saying is that in the event of a critical failure you are
presuming that the machine is going to be operational enough to remove the
useless purdy screen and display meaningful messages?

    You're absolutely sure?

    100% of the time?

    It would never fail so bad as to not remove the graphical screen?

    Even though I've seen machines do it all the time on several different OSes?

    100% sure?

    Should is not will.  Displaying them from the start is will, not should.