Messages in this thread |  | | From | Albert Cahalan <> | Subject | Re: Boot messages (Was: Re: Ideas for v2.1) | Date | Wed, 19 Jun 1996 14:49:27 -0400 (EDT) |
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From: miquels@q.cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
> Uhm, all VGA cards support redefining the character set right?
I think so, but maybe not cheap notebooks.
> So why don't you just redefine the upper 64 characters and display > them in a block of 8x8. That way, you will still be in text mode > and LILO and the kernel can display all debugging messages they want. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That is the _problem_. You may think it is truly sick, but many people do not want to see the boot up messages. The cryptic messages remind these people of their cluelessness.
> Of course the kernel should reset the characterset just > before starting the first user process.
There is no reason to care because the system would only run X. You could even remove the vt102 emulation from the kernel.
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