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To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. 
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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:40:34 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Sorry if this has already been suggested (I did not read the initial
> postings).
> how about this: build a simple utility which allows the splash page (and
> possibly its loader code, to be able to deal with different graphics
> formats) to be appended/removed from /kernel:
> 
> 	splashon kernel_file picture_file
> 	splashoff kernel_file

You could put this into the boot message area, like the current
commands for going into the "intro" screen are done (see the tail-end
of the floppy building rule in /usr/src/release/Makefile).  Then it
would be trivial to "splash-isize" an existing boot.flp image with dd.

						Jordan