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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