Messages in this thread |  | | From | Shinanyaku <> | Subject | Re: Boot messages (Was: Re: Ideas for v2.1) | Date | Tue, 18 Jun 1996 18:25:46 -0400 (EDT) |
| |
Matt Hawkins was heard saying .... > > On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Dwight Hubbard wrote: > > > > Alan Cox 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 > > > How about the penguin at an ACME switch with a BIG fan blowing all > > > the coluds away? Could say "The Switch Is On!" ;) > > I was thinking more along the lines of an image= parameter in > > lilo.conf so the image could be set to anything. > > Hate to sound stupid, but just how is lilo going to go about displaying > graphical images? Are we going to put graphics support into lilo? Do > you think that's going to fit into the MBR or superblock? And what about > those ppl who don't use lilo?
Well heck then, have the kernel itself pop into 320x200x256 if a VGA is attached and dump a bitmap. Right before the kernel launches INIT, pop it back into whatever text mode was defined.
Hey! Two birds with one stone: a logo and getting rid of boot images :)
Shin! __________________________________________________________________________ Another Mailing List personality of Nicholas J. Leon shin@binary9.net
Linux Kernel Database [http://www.binary9.net/nicholas/kerneldb/]
"It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, it is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning, it is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion."
|  |