Probably not that often. Usually it tells you to press a key to skip it. If they bothered to read that it's fscking then they would know how to skip it in the m

Probably not that often. Usually it tells you to press a key to skip it. If they bothered to read that it's fscking then they would know how to skip it in the majority of cases. (I know that GNOME and XFCE do this. Pretty sure KDE does too when I used it.) In the case of OS/2 This sounds like a problem that could have been solved with a well placed printf call during the boot routine. (Like say; at the the beginning.)