Progress indicator on loading images

[Bertho Stultiens]

Hi,

The old grub (v1) displayed a set of dots while loading kernel and
initrd files from disk. However, it seems that it is impossible to get
this behavior enabled in grub2.

I am booting on an old machine from usb (v1.1) and it takes ages to get
the 20MB loaded. An indication of activity and where it is in the
process would be nice.

Is there a way to configure a progress-bar or the old dots while the
kernel and initrd are being loaded from disk in grub2?

BTW, this is on a machine with "xubuntu 12.04 lts".

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Greetings Bertho

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