Messages in this thread |  | | From | Jared Mauch <> | Subject | Re: Boot messages (Was: Re: Ideas for v2.1) | Date | Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:24:35 -0400 (EDT) |
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The Intel Flash bios motherboards can be programmed with a picture of the vendor or the users configuration. You can get their flash bios writing program from ftp.intel.com, and it has docs for setting up a bios picture, so all you nudie fans, and others can make stuff like that, or even penguins show up. If I recall correctly it only lets you drop in 4 color pictures, perhaps 16, but not any more than that because if someone puts a mda video card in, they want to be able to niceley revert back to a non graphical image thingie.. ;-)
- Jared
Shinanyaku graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge: > Miquel van Smoorenburg was heard saying .... > > > > > Uhm, all VGA cards support redefining the character set right? 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. Ofcourse the kernel should > > reset the characterset just before starting the first user process. > > Is that how modern BIOS's show a graphical image upon boot while still > displaying text? It sounds like TRS-80'ish! > > > > > Mike. > > -- > > Miquel van | Cistron Internet Services -- Alphen aan den Rijn. > > Smoorenburg, | mailto:info@cistron.nl http://www.cistron.nl/ > > miquels@het.net | Tel: +31-172-419445 (Voice) 430979 (Fax) 442580 (Data) > > > > > > > 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." >
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