On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 22:07 +0100, Dave Cotton wrote:
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 18:53 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
As the splash screen says, press ESC for more info. When an fsck is happening during a boot, doing this tells what is going on. Of course, it is in geekese. But it does also say that it is checking the file system, and there is a progress bar and a spinning doodad.
You missed the point completely.
Windoze does this itself, the average Fred then knows something is actually happening, even if they have no idea what it means. The machine does not appear to be locked up.
I'm not sure I did miss the point. I would rather say that when windows (or any OS for that matter) boots, many things happen that can fail. Some are fatal errors, some are warnings. In Windows (95/98/XP) all I get to see are the ones someone decided should be called to my attention. It lacks the esc of the SUSE boot theme to let me see more. I see the lack to be on the part of the windows boot. If a computer seems to be stuck, and the screen says to press esc for more info, what is the problem? It is the only text on the screen. No clutter or menu to navigate. I guess you could disable the boot theme to be text, so the fsck is shown without expecting the user to bother reading and pressing a key when the boot is not done fast enough. I'm not looking for an argument. But I do not think the SUSE boot theme is so user unfriendly. -- Roger Oberholtzer