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Date:      Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:12:02 +0200
From:      pb@hsc.fr (Pierre Beyssac)
To:        brandon@glacier.cold.org (Brandon Gillespie)
Cc:        durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us (Jim Durham), rminnich@Sarnoff.COM (Ron G. Minnich), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: splash-page on bootup..
Message-ID:  <199609240812.KAA08147@sidhe.hsc.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960923185127.20102A-100000@glacier.cold.org>; from Brandon Gillespie on Sep 23, 1996 18:52:36 -0600
References:  	<Pine.BSF.3.91.960923185127.20102A-100000@glacier.cold.org>

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According to Brandon Gillespie:
> > 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?
> 
> Or you hit ESC and get the probe messages you want.

That would probably not be enough in the general case.
What if the hidden message is "keyboard failure" ? :-)

IMHO, even if this whole stuff is a kernel config option (which is the
least), it is _necessary_ to provide a kernel boot option to disable it.
-- 
Pierre Beyssac					Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr



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