Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 May 1998 10:25:07 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: boot images/logos/splashes (yet another idea) |
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On Thu, 14 May 1998 shalon@interlock.dfw.ibm.com wrote: > From: Marnix Coppens <maco@telindus.be> > > As long as we don't use IBM's idea for AIX to show some 3-digit numbers > on the LEDs to indicate the progress and possible errorcodes. > "Hello, support ? My RS/6000 got stuck at number 204." > > Eh? Why not, at least as an add-on? > I work on the IBM SP Support Line. > Those numbers are a *godsend* to us, though I'd like to get boot > messages like Linux uses as well. The combination would be wonderful.
Yeah, our most popular number is `200'. But without the manual, it's very difficult to find out that the machine just wants someone to find the key and turn the lock.
> Typical conversation: > "Hello, support? My node is hanging at 231" > "Ok. Do you have an entry in /etc/bootptab for this node?" > > Conversation without numbers: > "Hello, support? My node is hanging." > "Ok, what's the last thing on the screen?" > "Umm....it says something about sending and receiving packets." > > Much more room for error. > Assuming they read the right line in the first place. > With the LEDs, even a secretary who's been drafted cause the admin's > out sick can give us the basic info we need.
And now the kernel source maintenance problem: how to impose unique numbers to kernel messages with the least labor?
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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