On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:09:52 -0400, Thomas Mills Hinkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Go into "super silent" mode where fbsplash/debsplash would NEVER <snip> > Just to be clear --my computer now seems to be "super silent" -- it > doesn't show messages even when fsck is going on (my ext3 partitions are > automatically checked every so-many mounts).
Yep. And this bothers me because I have NO idea why it works for some and not for other computers. Same thing happened to me while using bootsplash. I have noticed that some Live CDs do this well and never really go into verbose mode (even in the same computers I had problems with my own kernels). I have tested other systems that work with my kernels just fine. So this tells me that some of the hardware/kernel modules I have or perhaps some initrc scripts for the services I'm running, cause the kernel to go into "warning" and dumps you in verbose. Again, this warnings can easily be discarded as they are just stupid messages. Things like: module foo could not be loaded because it was already loaded I could care less about this. > As you say, it would be nice if it did show a special message > saying"checking hard-drive" and perhaps showing a second smaller > progress bar for this process. As is, I often think startup has somehow > "frozen" when fsck is going on and hit F2 to see what's going on. fsck is definitely a f*ck'ed up thing :-) My XFS drives NEVER need this. But buggy ext3 needs this every N mounts (as you mentioned). And let's not go into how slow ext3 is and how much disk space you loose when you format a big drive using this... but that's a totally different subject to be discussed in a totally different mailing list. random thoughts; XFS should be default for all linux partitions and grub should just work with XFS disks. lilo is history. no need to support it any further. -- ----)(----- Luis M System Administrator LatinoMixed.com "We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on" -- Steve Jobs in an interview for MacWorld Magazine 2004-Feb No .doc: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.es.html
