Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 07:32:26 +0100 (IST) From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@iol.ie> To: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: it's time... Message-ID: <XFMail.990813073226.steveo@iol.ie> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908121439500.32085-100000@penelope.skunk.org>
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On 12-Aug-99 Ben Rosengart wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
>
>> What in the world would be the point of doing this? What would be so
>> great
>> about not seeing the system boot up?
>
> One might want minimal or no boot messages, just to look nice, while
> still wanting the dmesg stuff around in case something goes wrong or
> they need to configure a kernel. It's certainly chrome, but I'd like
> it.
Surely if you don't want to see the boot messages for cosmetic
reasons a splash screen is the most cosmeticly pleasing solution.
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