Date: Sat, 07 Feb 1998 12:49:09 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@asme.org> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org, mike@smith.net.au, alk@pobox.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd0s1e hard errors Message-ID: <199802072049.MAA05414@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 07 Feb 1998 00:48:55 EST." <34DBF5C7.167EB0E7@asme.org>
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> Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > The splash screen stuff is another kettle of fish - I can think of a > > number of commercial folks who'd like their logo to come up when > > FreeBSD boots and such things don't interfere with text based installs > > anyway, so why not? > > > The fancy stuff can wait until *AFTER* the system is installed. The splash code adds almost nothing to the bootblocks; most of the growth is the "extras" section stuff, which should reduce the footprint required for the USERCONFIG_BOOT option. All of this becomes moot as soon as someone extracts their digit and writes the ELF bootloader. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com
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