[openbeos] Re: AW: Re: Haiku Bootscreen

"André Braga" <meianoite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 dont see a status indicator and a problem 
> > > occurs you
> > > dont 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 dont know if its 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 ;)

That's already there, just enable console debug output in the safemode 
settings.

Bye,
   Axel.


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