Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:37:51 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@freebsd.org To: durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us Cc: rminnich@Sarnoff.COM, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. Message-ID: <199609240637.IAA01896@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.960923195736.durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> from "Jim Durham" at Sep 23, 96 07:57:37 pm
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In reply to Jim Durham who wrote:
>
> Isn't there stuff that happens before syscons gets the alternate consoles
> cooking that would be important to see?
Not the way I'm doing this...
> I like the idea of prettying up the presentation of the messages, but keeping
> them.
>
> The language used in the boot messages has been around since Version 6.
> Maybe that could be made more "user-friendly" ;-) , as well as putting
> it against a color background, then bring up the "gee whiz" screen.
>
> I keep picturing making a new kernel and it not booting, and you're looking
> at a big FreeBSD Daemon instead of a message telling something userful.
> Maybe the daemon could frown, like the Mac? That would help?
You wont get a splash screen if you havn't compiled your kernel for it,
I'll HATE to lose the bootup messages, but I also see the need for doing
it (hell I have a project myself that benefits from this :) )
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time.
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