tomscharbach I hope so too. That screen can indeed become at least sluggish with things like faulty HDDs or memory modules.
Answer: No, that's a pic from the internet to show what screen I (and I believe the OP) was talking about.
Speaking of the laptop I had, I tried everything imaginable (removing the CMOS battery, removing HDD, swapping memory modules etc) and it would still get stuck on the loading bar. After getting a replacement I didn't manage to brick it immediately, but after I needed a live USB for something and rebooted from the live environment I would be stuck on the screen again.
When I was passing the lappy (with a second replacement mobo) on, I made sure not to reboot from a live system and shut down instead. The brick didn't happen. Might be just a very bad coincidence or the BIOS getting corrupt, I don't really know. It's not a Solus thing, I used some other distro back then.
