Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:47:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Rob Snow <rsnow@lgc.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.95.960924083948.21321C-100000@dympna> In-Reply-To: <199609240637.IAA01896@ra.dkuug.dk>
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I'm all for it.
- Why not?
- What _is_ the downside?
- Dont want it, turn it off.
- It's not "Windoze" that comes to mind, it's Irix (I think it was
here slightly before W95...)
-Rob
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 sos@freebsd.org wrote:
> 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.
>
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