Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 19 Jun 1996 01:38:27 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: Boot messages (Was: Re: Ideas for v2.1) |
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On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Matt Hawkins wrote: > > 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? > > -- Matt > > You sound stupid, all the lilo loader in the MBR/superblock/.... does is load the second stage loader off disk, which load's the kernel or other OS (dos/os2/win95/winNT/...).
It could just as easly load a second stage loader that know's some stuff about how to detect a vga display, how to put it in some basic graphic mode, and stick up a low res image up during boot, after which the kernel would reset it (from video.S or some such place, video.S could include code that resets the vga to textmode). Bryn -- PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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