where went the handy progress phrases during boot?

[Robert P. J. Day]

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?

rday

[Adam Pribyl]

I see them with F8T2, they are just bit dark. What version/image are you 
using?
BTW: The "start first boot" message is too long for the window width. Just 
minor look&feel problem.

Adam Pribyl

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, 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?
>
> rday

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Adam Pribyl wrote:
> I see them with F8T2, they are just bit dark. What version/image are
> you using? BTW: The "start first boot" message is too long for the
> window width. Just minor look&feel problem.
>
> Adam Pribyl

i just rebooted under 2.6.23-0.202.rc8.fc8 and i looked closely and i
didn't see any of those progress phrases, even if they were hard to
read.    OTOH, i'm not running f8t2, just f8t1 fully updated, if that
makes a difference.

but there's definitely some weird colour issues going on here.  when i
want to build a new kernel and run "make menuconfig" in the kernel
source directory, the window that appears has a much more pronounced
light blue tint than i ever remember seeing until now.  that's
something that has *definitely* changed.

rday

p.s.  gateway laptop, FYI.

[Matthias Clasen]

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...