StreamlinedBoot

Revision 10 as of 2005-12-29 13:39:22

Clear message

Summary

Identify what we're actually doing during boot up, and decide what we actually need to be doing and drop (or move) anything we don't; regroup the boot sequence into clear targets ("hardware detection", "console setup", "filesystem checking and mounting", etc.).

Rationale

Use cases

Scope

Design

A good idea would be to do this like the KDE and Gnome splash screens. But instead of using icons, we'd use flashing text on Usplash and the progress bar to show the boot progress.

attachment:streamlinesplash.gif

Implementation

The best idea would be to make Usplash only draw those multiple strings, but then code in a system that still works with our output system for the current Usplash, making Usplash flash different text based off coded triggers in the Usplash code.

Code

Data preservation and migration

Outstanding issues

Bug comparing Breezy to Mandriva's boot speed: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/boot/+bug/3485

BoF agenda and discussion

viper550: Why not do this like the KDE splash screen, this might be a feasable approach to this idea.