From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 12 23:44:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pooh.elsevier.nl (pooh.elsevier.nl [145.36.9.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0600C156F3; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 23:44:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steveo@iol.ie) Received: from pooh.elsevier.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pooh.elsevier.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA65935; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 07:32:27 +0100 (IST) (envelope-from steveo@iol.ie) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 07:32:26 +0100 (IST) From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Ben Rosengart Subject: Re: it's time... Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message