From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 23 23:38:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA24726 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 23:38:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ra.dkuug.dk (ra.dkuug.dk [193.88.44.193]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA24702 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 23:38:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by ra.dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA01896; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:37:52 +0200 Message-Id: <199609240637.IAA01896@ra.dkuug.dk> Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. To: durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:37:51 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: rminnich@Sarnoff.COM, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jim Durham" at Sep 23, 96 07:57:37 pm From: sos@freebsd.org Reply-to: sos@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 :) ) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time.