Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jun 1996 13:20:15 -0700 (PDT) | From | Kernel Developement <> | Subject | Re: Boot messages (Was: Re: Ideas for v2.1) |
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On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Dwight Hubbard wrote:
> > > To bad we can't make Lilo put up a graphical picture like Windows > > > 95 does. Maybe a nice winter scene with Penguins frolicking in > > > the > > > > You can. What makes you think its hard. Take up thy sources and > > hack > > Actually I have been archiving all the sugestions to see if I > couldn't implement the better ones. > > Somehow, I think adding code to lilo to put up a picture is going to > be a lot less work then the fancy colorized boot messages and tables > that are being suggested...
Isn't LILO in the boot sector? If this is the case then it really isn't the best place to put this. Maybe pass a name onto the kernel to have a viewer run it, but i would not think that you would want a loader to be a image displayer.
Kenn Herman --- 3 Greatest security holes: 1) take it out of the box -- exposure to superuser. 2) turn it on -- exposure to co-workers. 3) put it on the net -- exposure to hacking.
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