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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:47:55 +0200
From: Abraham vd Merwe <abraham@2d3d.co.za>
To: Sunil Phatak <sunil.phatak@tatainfotech.com>
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Subject: Re: LPP (was: The new X-Kernel !)
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Hi Sunil!

> Well, people and even novices may be interested in the boot messages and/=
or can
> learn a great deal from them.  But at boot time the messages can be hidde=
n as they
> anyway scroll past too fast to read, and are available later by 'dmesg'. =
Even the

That's what ScrollLock and Shift-PageUP are for (;

dmesg is also useless if the kernel crashes before you've booted up
completely.

> > I suspect most people on this list feel the same as me and also feel th=
at
> > kernel debugging messages is not only a feature, but essential!
>=20
> The 'startup screen+ progress bar' can be enabled for all stable kernels =
once
> Linus freezes that version.

I guess this won't be too bad as long as you have the option to boot up the
traditional way. I definitely prefer knowing what's going on to looking at
progress bars.

--=20

Regards
 Abraham

You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.

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