Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 12:41:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, brandon@glacier.cold.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. Message-ID: <Pine.AUX.3.94.960922123651.13747A-100000@covina.lightside.com> In-Reply-To: <199609221650.KAA07455@rover.village.org>
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On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <199609221457.JAA14843@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Joe Greco writes: > : If you have the appropriate graphics depth available, _maybe_... can't > : remember enough about PC graphics to figure out if normal VGA is 16 or 256 > : colors.. 16 obviously would not fly. > > Hmmm, I think that turning the background blue or some other pleasing > color would go a long way toward making people like the boot process > more. :-) :-) > Maybe the best idea would be to have a -q mode that boots quietly so > that you can do the blue screen trick, and then a little later start > up X windows and see very little in the way of booting junk. After > all, what NT does it turn the screen blue, print a terse message that > says it is coming up, then starts Windows as soon as it is able, and > then continues bringing up the rest of the system. I seem to recall > that one of its loader stages does this. I think this is the best idea yet! Turn the background blue, the foreground white, and draw a few cheezy curses-looking boxes and a status bar. If you notice, both FreeBSD and Slackware Linux's SETUP programs have this look, as does the MS-DOS SETUP program. :-) Then recode the probe messages to print in the appropriate part of the screen, bump the status bar up at various stages of the boot process, and voila! A "professional" boot sequence. Especially if OEM's can customize the various messages and colors to give their version a unique look. -- Jake
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