Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 19:11:40 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> To: (Jake Hamby) <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, patrick@xinside.com, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, terry@lambert.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Sun Workshop compiler vs. GCC? Message-ID: <XFMail.970215200110.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> In-Reply-To: <199702152232.OAA05103@lightside.com>
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Hi Jake Hamby; On 15-Feb-97 you wrote: ... > Is there some PC UNIX that _does_ have a boot splash screen? Last I have seen SVR4.2 (Unixware 2.2?), it had room for a bitmap that was thrown by the boot loader onto the VGA screen. The one I saw had the USL (anyone remember who they were?). I also saw one with a red Novell display. Is this whqt you refer to? . > I also suggest that FreeBSD add a splash screen with clearly printed > directions on how to bypass it to see the hardware probes underneath. We > could also add a custom FreeBSD logo to the CDE and/or XFree86 startup > sequences. We could play .AU files while the system is starting up (as Sun > does with the Netra), or go all the way and create an X-basedinstallation > program (as Solaris and some Linux distributions do). I would recommend that we put at least a blinking pixel, or dot, or continue the spinning dash, or some such as it is nerve wrecking to sit and wait for the boot to finish, not knowing ``has it crashed, hung, or just slow?'' Simon
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