Boot screen: Quiet or not?

[Steve Flynn]

On 10/10/2007, Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com> wrote:
>
> Mario Vukelic wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 22:33 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> >> Two solutions.
> >>
> >> Turn off your monitor, or stop rebooting.
> >>
> >> Ooh!  Run your computer headless.  Then you can access it remotely
> >> and
> >> never see ANY boot messages.
> >>



Right now, on this very list is a user saying he's installed 7.04 and is
faced with a black screen (presumably X has failed to start) but as all he
has is a black screen he has NO information on what he should put in his
request to this list asking for help.

We can debate the pros and cons of boot screens versus boot messages for
months and never come to any consensus. In the meantime, a user still has a
totally black screen and no indication why.

-- 
Steve
When 1 person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people
suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.

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