Show Details on Bootup

[Rob Park]

Fritz Whittington wrote:
> Agreed.  Hopefully, he will respond.  [Except that in my case, the "show 
> details" in rhgb is *more* ugly, not less :-) ]

Actually, I kind of like rhgb, with the details hidden or not. I think 
it's slick. And I think that rhgb is one of the things that linux really 
needs to make inroads on the desktop. The kernel's boot procedure needs 
an option to disable all normal output (ie, only print anything if it's 
an error, otherwise be quiet -- much like how rhgb shows no details at 
first but will automatically go into detailed mode if one of the 
bootscripts fails). Then the linux boot procedure will basically have no 
confusing text scrolling all over the place, it would all be very slick 
and professional, and more "computer-illiterate" type people will be 
able to use linux (compare with the WinXP bootup procedure).