From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 27 06:09:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0899216A4CE for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:09:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fast.dnswatch.com (fast.dnswatch.com [216.177.243.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D0BA43D5F for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:09:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from null@dnswatch.com) Received: from fast.dnswatch.com (localhost.dnswatch.com [127.0.0.1]) by fast.dnswatch.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j3R69Hsm062390 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:09:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from null@dnswatch.com) Received: (from www@localhost) by fast.dnswatch.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id j3R69GV1062389; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:09:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from null@dnswatch.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fast.dnswatch.com: www set sender to null@dnswatch.com using -f Received: from demon.dnswatch.com ([216.177.243.42]) (DNSwatch.com_WebMail authenticated user null) by webmail.dnswatch.com with HTTP; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:09:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <57436.216.177.243.42.1114582155.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:09:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "/dev/null" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org User-Agent: DNSwatch.com_WebMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: boot banner project X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:09:21 -0000 Hello any & all, O.K. I feel I must preface this with an acknowledgment that I *know* this is a silly project *because* given the *incredibly* long uptimes that FreeBSD is known for. >>But<< for those *few* times when FreeBSDers see a boot screen, shouldn't it look really nice? Shouldn't also be able to reflect the Administrators tastes and personality? Well, this is the premise for my attempting this project. But before I start, I want to submit an RFC. So consider this an Request for comments. This is an attempt to create a Graphical boot screen that initially has the following layout: (a fixed width font required to view the layout correctly) -------------------------------------------------------- | some | | sort | | of | | graphic goes in this area | |-------------------------------------------------------- | boot | | | | messages | | | | seen | | | | here | | bla... | | bla... | | bla... | --------------------------------------------------------- -Chris //////////////////////////////////////////////////// If only Western Electric had found a way to offer binary licenses for the UNIX system back in 1974, the UNIX system would be running on all PC's today rather than DOS/Windows. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////