Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Boot messages (Was: Re: Ideas for v2.1) (fwd) | Date | Sun, 23 Jun 1996 23:21:45 -0500 (CDT) | From | neuron@arn ... |
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> > On Sun, 23 Jun 1996, John Sullivan wrote: > > > In article <4qef89$8n@melchior.cuivre.fdn.fr>, > > Thomas Quinot <thomas@cuivre.fdn.fr> wrote: > > >Now can we *please* drop this whole messages/animation/penguin noise > > >and get back to real development ? > > > > >[patch with quoted-printable corruption snipped] > > > > Hey - who says the penguin business is just noise and not real > > development? > > > > I now present to you, a real live penguin boot-logo, with the > > following caveats: > > o It's a complete hack. Use at your own risk. > > o It does some nasty things to vga hardware, so although it will > > probably work on most vga compatible hardware, ega may be > > be pushing it a little. Working over a serial console is right > > out - don't even try it. > > o Other than that, dunno. Should work. I like it. YMMV. > > The logo is the official Larry Ewing one. > >
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> > I get parser errors compiling... oh well.... >
all you need to do is add an } as the very last line of drivers/char/console.c... for some reason, patch didn't insert this last line eventhough the patch contained the line. This patch works beautifully!
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