From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 24 01:13:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA12877 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 01:13:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from itesec.hsc.fr (root@itesec.hsc.fr [192.70.106.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA12840 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 01:13:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sidhe.hsc.fr (pb@sidhe.hsc.fr [192.70.106.44]) by itesec.hsc.fr (8.7.5/8.7.3/itesec-1.8) with ESMTP id KAA22137; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:12:12 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from pb@localhost) by sidhe.hsc.fr (8.8.Alpha.4/sidhe-new-1.7) id KAA08147; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:12:02 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199609240812.KAA08147@sidhe.hsc.fr> 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.. In-Reply-To: ; from Brandon Gillespie on Sep 23, 1996 18:52:36 -0600 References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.41 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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