Hi Sunil!
> Well, people and even novices may be interested in the boot messages and/or can
> learn a great deal from them. But at boot time the messages can be hidden as they
> anyway scroll past too fast to read, and are available later by 'dmesg'. Even the
That's what ScrollLock and Shift-PageUP are for (;
dmesg is also useless if the kernel crashes before you've booted up
completely.
> > I suspect most people on this list feel the same as me and also feel that
> > kernel debugging messages is not only a feature, but essential!
>
> The 'startup screen+ progress bar' can be enabled for all stable kernels once
> Linus freezes that version.
I guess this won't be too bad as long as you have the option to boot up the
traditional way. I definitely prefer knowing what's going on to looking at
progress bars.
--Regards Abraham
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