Quoting Thomas Prost (t...@prosts.info): > Maybe the aubergine at boot stays black (it's an old laptop I test it > on, where this difference is hardly seen), but what I hoped for is not > a twenty seconds empty screen but displaying messages right from > leaving the BIOS screen :-(
I would very much like to go back to the old way of booting too, especially for Ubuntu Server installs. However, i was told there is no way Ubuntu is going back to 'the old boot style' because of changes in the entire boot sequence: upstart introduces parallel bootstrapping of services which would result in incomprehensible output on your console if those services being started could log to the console at all because of the way upstart works. My attempts at getting rid of plymouth and the explanation of involved Ubuntu devs should be archived in the ubuntu-server@ mailinglist archives. IMO all these changes are really useful on desktop installs, parallel booting makes it fast, the splashscreen doesn't scare off people with all these strange numbers and words scrolling on the screen, however, as a sysadmin, with servers, it all Just Has No Use and frustrates debugging (boot)issues. Problem is, 'Ubuntu Server' is just a different selection of packages with a shared base set. Not a completely different 'distribution', so it shares all these eyecandy patches with the Desktop installs. HTH, -Sndr. -- | The cigarette does all the smoking. You are just the sucker. | 4096R/20CC6CD2 - 6D40 1A20 B9AA 87D4 84C7 FBD6 F3A9 9442 20CC 6CD2 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
