where went the handy progress phrases during boot?

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Thu Sep 27 16:10:15 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 06:46 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> during the graphical part of the fedora boot as initial services
> were being invoked, even if you chose not to view the details, i could
> have sworn that you would still be presented with terse summaries of
> each phase such as "Starting networking" or some such thing, and i
> don't see those anymore.
> 
>   were they deliberately removed?  am i just imagining things?
> 

They were deliberately removed, since a) they don't add much information
for the regular user, b) they made the rhgb window resize in ugly ways
and c) there were just strings for a handful of hardcoded services
anyway, it was essentially all fake...




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