Messages in this thread | | | From | Raphael Schmid <> | Subject | RE: AW: Bootscreen | Date | Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:56:37 +0100 |
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> Right. > > Q: It hangs when booting! Just get to see the cute penguin > (whatshisnameagain?) > > A: What version of Linux? What exactly did the bird do before hanging? BTW, > his (her?) name is Tux > > Q: Oh, yo mean like $BIG_DISTRO 10.7.3? Yep, Tux winked. > > A. No, the kernel version... [longish explanation deleted]. And exactly how > many times did he wink? Which wings? Did he waddle about? How many > steps? Did he blink? Did you install wink-blink-boot version 27.3, or > are you still with the older one?
C'moon! It'd make IT so much more interesting and fun! Think of all the increased communication skills mankind would develop through this!
Seriously, *laughs*, I don't think debugging user problems would escalate into such a scenario. Let me again point out my proposal:
There is *one* line of boot messages shown. Whenever the System hangs, you will see the last message. Carefully designed messages will greatly help, of course.
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