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Re: My Wishlist and strategic thinking for v2.4
David Weinehall wrote:
> o Startup-screen should output all messages to the log-console instead of
> the main-console; the main console should just output a "booting" message
> or similar, or even better show a penguin boot-screen. Rationale: We who
> need the messages know how to access them, the main-stream messages
> doesn't need them. And if they do, they can simply press Ctrl+F12 to bring
> them on-screen...
Oh no! First thing I did in Winblows9$=§ was to switch of that stupid
graphics ... for me ist seems, that M$ wants to hide its roots (DOS)
... Linux neednīt to do that!
Itīs very useful to have the Kernel-Startup on the main-console, you
easy can see, if thereīs a problem with your hardware.
For some ppl might have a problem to read the scrollig stuff it would
be nice to have an "ordered" bootup-screen, where you have a short
summary of hardware:
Hereīs an example:
Kernel: [Linux 2.2.1, built: 98-01-29]
CPU: [AMD K6-2 299MHz, 598 BogoMips]
FPU: [using exception 16 error reporting]
Memory: [RAM 98304k, 1036k used by Kernel]
[swap 128M]
Console: [VGA 80x25]
Parport: [SPP,PS2]
[lp0 using parport0, polling]
Serialports: [ttyS00, ttyS01]
Soundcard: [es1370, Joystick off, OK]
Floppy: [fd0=1,44M]
[fd1=1,2M]
SCSI: [scsi0=AHA2940A on PCI 9/0, Id=7]
[detected 2 SCSI-CDROM, 2 SCSI DISKS]
NIC: [eth0=tulip]
[eth1=3c509]
Partitions: [sda: sda1 sda2 <sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sda10 sda11 >]
[sdb: sdb1]
<Here follows the init-output>
The output cannot be sequencial (the swap cannot be detected before
scsi :), but for a summary you can fill up the screen optin by
option...
This would be a nice alternate for ppl who donīt like the main-console
messed up with kernel-garbage, the "normal" output of the kernel can
be stored somewhere else.
Greetings
Raphael
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