On Fri, 11 May 2012, Phillip Susi wrote: > On 5/11/2012 2:52 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: > > … > …
There is no reason why it should be mutually exclusive: 1. Gimme a terminal straight away. 2. Get on with booting in the background as, and when disks show up. The common-case is that the user just *wants the system to boot;* And the even more common-case is that the user wouldn't know what to type even if given a terminal too soon. That can be avoided by having an infinite non-blocking timeout for disk fail, and a zero non-blocking timeout for magic shell popup. Then the onerous would be on a l33t power-user to willfully pause the existing boot sequence from the terminal (if they need to do something *really special*) and for every other case it would recover gracefully. -Paul (It might need some design input for how to present this in practice). -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel