Fedora Core 3

[Harald Hoyer]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 05:19:58PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> 
>>Any kernel text showing up with the current 'quiet' mode could be
>>considered a bug :)
> 
> 
> Speaking of which -- is there a way to make the 'quiet' mode into a
> 'spinner' mode or an 'increasing dot dot dot' mode? On some systems, it
> takes a while, and I've had to disable it here, since I had _several_
> different people thinking their computer was locked at boot and just hitting
> the reset button over and over instead of waiting.
> 
> 

I once made a kernel patch, which printed a "." for every line that would have been printed.
This gives you a nice feedback, that your machine actually is doing s.th.