Re: Wheel "\|/-" instead of dots "......"

[Christoph Plattner]

I am not sure. Many different bootloaders I know, which are fetching
data via net, have any kind of progess indication. I also know one,
which is quiet, the HP PA RiSC boot monitors (PDC).
An other boot monitor of a PowerPC machine even displays the percentage
of the downloaded file.

I liked the wheel, and I even know a boot monitor, who uses the 
wheel for a local boot from flash.

Is it not possible to disable output of progress in some commands
like `cat' and let them active otherwise ?
Or is it possible to implement the wheel on a higher level loading
kernels, modules, etc....

But I can also live without that wheel.

Bye
Christoph P.


"Yoshinori K. Okuji" wrote:
> 
> At Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:07:19 +0100,
> Christoph Plattner wrote:
> > Because of the changes to the new etherboot stuff (good work),
> > the wheel - indicating the net download progress - was replaced
> > by a big chain of dots (new behavior in etherboot).
> >
> > For GRUB this does not look very nice, beucause a big initrd
> > will fillup the screen with dots and the all GRUB messages are
> > scrolled away.
> >
> > IMO we should change back to whell while loading data from net.
> > This looks more professional for GRUB.
> 
> While I understand what you mean, I don't think the rolling bar is
> good, either. When running "cat", it was just annoying to see several
> marks with the real contents of a file.
> 
> So I even think of not displaying anything as an indicator of data
> transfers. Or, it might be better to put an indicator on somewhere
> appropriate (e.g. the end of the screen) and erase it before printing
> real information. I guess this is not so easy to implement, though.
> 
> What do you think about this:
> 
> * Nothing is displayed as an indicator by default.
> * Dots or something else are displayed in verbose mode (or debug mode).
> 
> Thanks,
> Okuji

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