Since making this and using it for ~2 years, I have discovered a few laptop models which have buggy battery state reporting mechanisms. They can stop updating the OS as to the battery state and level (I suspect because the embedded controller has crashed? - or maybe dodgy connections to a removable battery).
Anyway - the end result is that this patch makes those models of laptop unusable, because even when the user plugs in a power supply, the battery remains in the "3% charge, discharging, no AC" state, and the system won't boot.
This patch is therefore on hold until someone adds some kind of way to easily bypass the warning, and that requires plymouth to have better support for user interaction.
Since making this and using it for ~2 years, I have discovered a few laptop models which have buggy battery state reporting mechanisms. They can stop updating the OS as to the battery state and level (I suspect because the embedded controller has crashed? - or maybe dodgy connections to a removable battery).
Anyway - the end result is that this patch makes those models of laptop unusable, because even when the user plugs in a power supply, the battery remains in the "3% charge, discharging, no AC" state, and the system won't boot.
This patch is therefore on hold until someone adds some kind of way to easily bypass the warning, and that requires plymouth to have better support for user interaction.