On Jan 9, 2013, at 2:48 AM, Bouchard Louis <louis.bouch...@canonical.com> wrote: > > I've been puzzled by this thread for a while. I'm booting Ubuntu > servers all day long (mostly in VMs nowaday) and all I see is the stream > of console messages up to the boot prompt. Here is a small capture of > one Precise server boot : > > http://people.canonical.com/~lbouchard/precise_server_boot.ogv >
That's because you have a small drive on your VM. Like I said, for desktops this is probably OK (Macs do same) but what if the host for those VM's has a 10TB disk array and suffers a powercut? A 10TB fsck can take hours., and what happens is that you see this line with the flashing cursor: Press C to cancel all checks in progress _ …nothing else. That should read with a moving progress bar, like this (and it was like this for over a decade until upstart arrived): Press C to cancel all checks in progress [======= ] 24% …in your video at 0:17 we see: Press C to cancel all checks in progress /dev/vda1: 230/124496 files (1.3% noncontiguous… etc. …the progress bar is missing. It should look something like this: Press C to cancel all checks in progress [========================] 100% Complete /dev/vda1: 230/124496 files (1.3% noncontiguous… etc. I know this sounds nit-picky, and it's true that it isn't the end of the world - but consider servers with very large disks, and people (read: your boss) screaming the whole time for ETA's to uptime - suddenly that little bar becomes quite valuable. At least we know if the server is doing something, and whether or not it's hung. Best - -- Mark -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam