[Outreachy 2023] Improve user experience on early system boot failures #26586
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Improve the user experience when something goes wrong early at system boot. We want to ensure that users are able to debug early boot failures by providing QR-encoded URLs pointing to useful description of errors that the system just experienced.
We also want to ensure that the system meets a minimum baseline level before it is allowed to continue booting, which for this project consists in checking that the battery level is adequate and above a minimum configurable threshold.
Implementing this project will require working on low-level components such as the systemd system manager, the journald logging service, and adding new early boot services that handle virtual terminals, consoles and QR encoding.
