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Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup..
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Jake Hamby wrote:
> 


> 
> > 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

We can simply have the syscons switch to vt1 and if you want the real
stuff you can make it NOT do that, or even switch back to vt0 yourself