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Bug#431204: marked as done (Enabling 'quiet' kernel option for D-I images)

Your message dated Mon, 2 Jul 2007 11:04:30 +0200
with message-id <200707021104.31411.elendil@planet.nl>
and subject line Enabling 'quiet' kernel option for D-I images
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Package: kernel-wedge
Severity: wishlist

Op 30-06-2007 om 08:02 schreef Christian Perrier:
> > If we think that it's too long without giving information to the user,
> > we can add some progress status during the init scripts and then
> > provide some more information to him/her to avoid this.
> 
> 
> Having something like "Starting Debian installation program..." at the very
> beginning of the init script would maybe help, yes.


AFAIK has that be done in the kernel-wedge package.

I hope that the message prevents users seeing a black screen for
some undefined time.

My proposal for the message is:

Running kernel init scripts for the installation program...



That has two improvement: 
- it says what is really going on
- it doesn't need rebranding



Geert Stappers
Who dislikes the idea of
changing "many strange text lines" into a "black screen"

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tags 431204 - pending
thanks

To be honest, I'm not at all sure what the intention of this BR is. The 
quiet option has already been implemented and, despite the subject, that 
does not seem to be what this BR is about.

If the report is just for this rather random message to be displayed, I 
have two comments:
- a test using 'BOOT_DEBUG=3' yesterday showed that the main 'delay' is
  before _any_ d-i code gets executed and that the first dialog is shown
  almost immediately afterwards; this means that our options to "add" a
  message in the delay are probably extremely limited
- as I said before, I suggest we wait to see what feedback we get before
  deciding if we need to change anything at all
  
For these reasons I'm closing this BR.
(I would have done so earlier if I'd realized that this _was_ a BR.)

Cheers,
FJP

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