From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 24 06:47:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA24880 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 06:47:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dympna (dympna.lgc.com [134.132.73.254]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA24856 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 06:47:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dympna (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id IAA21410 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:47:22 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:47:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Rob Snow X-Sender: rsnow@dympna To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. In-Reply-To: <199609240637.IAA01896@ra.dkuug.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. >