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From(david parsons)
SubjectRe: boot images/logos/splashes (one more idea)
Date13 May 1998 17:13:15 -0700
In article <linux.kernel.19980514051246.H20954@goldweb.com.au>,
Matthew Hawkins  <matt@mail.goldweb.com.au> wrote:

>What all the Pro Boot Logo people miss each time this useless thread reappears
>on the kernel mailing list is that Linux does not just run on IBM-compatible
>PCs.

    I think you're being ridiculous here.  OF COURSE Linux runs on
    other than IBM-Compatable machines, but that's no reason to
    avoid anything that might be useful on a specific class of
    IBM-compatable machine (VGA-capable graphics, in the case of
    the noickytexthere boot patch that was posted here) because
    I can't use it on my headless PA machine.

>You seem to suggest that a root prompt will freak out the users.

    Not in the least.  I want to have a noickytexthere boot logo
    because I (I've been using Unix for 21 years now) would rather
    see a pretty logo than the Unix standard page and a half of
    "okay, this subsystem installed correctly" messages during
    bootup.  (That's not the only reason; I have ongoing fights
    with timid clients who are positive that their customers will
    panic and die if they discover that their network is being
    routed to the outside world via a Linux machine instead of a,
    umm, modern and powerful blue-screen generator.  But if I wasn't
    employed, I'd still want to have my Linux distribution plop
    up a little picture of a 4-8-0 when it boots.)

                  ____
    david parsons \bi/   Now if I could only keep the system from puking
                   \/  when I don't set the console mode until after the
		                                       kernel has loaded.
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