Grub and Plymouth

[Adam Pribyl]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Martin Sourada wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 09:37 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
>> This is normal.  If you want the grub menu, hold down shift (or any
>> other key really).
>>
> Well, at least some text suggesting that you might do so would be good,
> I thing
>
>> That's the text plugin, yes.  It's not going to progress "smoothly",
>> it's ascii art.  We were hoping KMS support would land for Intel chips
>> for F10 but it looks like that's not going to happen.
>>
> On a similar note, I noticed the progress bar finishes long before the
> boot process (I think somewhere around the time services start to
> start). This isn't an expected behaviour from user point of view.
> Actually it is pretty weird... I've installed readahead (not sure though
> if it is enabled, or how to enable it if not) and disabled some unneeded
> services which resulted in the progress bar showing up incomplete for
> about only a third of the boot process (and completing really fast).
> When I look at the real progress after the progress bar is already
> finished, I see services starting.

I observe this too. Moreover if you press esc during this boot to see 
service starting messages, and then press esc again to hide it, then 
progressbar starts again from the beginning. Bit confusing.

>
> Martin
>

Adam Pribyl