[openbeos] Re: AW: Re: Haiku Bootscreen

On 6/20/07, Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I see the bootscreen 3-4 seconds (on a Pentium III M 1,13 GHz and 512MB
> RAM). I thought if you don´t see a status indicator and a problem occurs you
> don´t know when it happens. In BeOS you can see what the problem is. (If
> know what problem could occur on which symbol) On older hardware, where the
> boot up takes more time, you don´t know if it´s freezed.

You have a point there, of course. The boot loader itself (which displays the
boot screen) should be through after a fraction of a second (even on old
hardware). I also don't think the kernel initialization takes that long. I
have not measured it, but most of the time should be spent in the Bootscript,
where it is no longer trivial to print anything on screen.


So let's come up with some key combo to enable "verbose boot", like on
BeOS (the verbose boot, not the discrete key combo).

This way, if there are no problems during boot -> blissfully simple
and beautiful boot screen; if there ARE problems during boot -> very
useful console-like output, but with VESA resolution ;)


Cheers,
A.

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