Shell prompt is displayed before kexec

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Shell prompt is displayed before kexec #57

Closed artemsen closed 5 years ago

artemsen commented 5 years ago

When petitboot (ver. 1.10.1) initiates loading of a chosen system, it clears the terminal and prints title with shell prompt:

Exiting petitboot. Type 'exit' to return.
You may run 'pb-sos' to gather diagnostic data
No password set, running as root. You may set a password in the System Configuration screen.
#

That prompt is not interactive and it looks like the system hangs for 3-5 seconds and then start kexec. This behavior might be misleading to the end-user.

sammj commented 5 years ago

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1047572/ addresses this issue, which I'll merge soon for a minor release.

artemsen commented 5 years ago

LGTM, thanks!

sammj commented 5 years ago

FYI this is now in v1.10.2