Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 20 Jun 1996 11:34:52 +0200 | From | Stefan Reinauer <> | Subject | Re: Boot messages (Was: Re: Ideas for v2.1) |
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Jared Mauch wrote: > > 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!
It only lets you drop in monochrome pictures. You can choose a foreground and a background color. The logo is show in the up right corner when booting and it is removed before the LILO-Pro,pt appears.
You need a program called "usrutil" to make picturefiles work with the writing program.
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