Messages in this thread | | | From | Raphael Schmid <> | Subject | Re: Bootscreen | Date | Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:13:05 +0100 |
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> > Most of the machines I maintain are very seldom rebooted, but if someone
> > was to do a reboot, I would want them to be able to observe any errors or > > other abnormal output from the boot-up process. > > Agreed, for standard desktops and servers. Well, I really don't know about you, but I for one reboot my desktop every morning. Maybe this is a German attitude, but I generally consider it a waste of resources to have my workstation run during the night. For downloads and the like, I got a headless server which does good power management in the closet room. Besides, again: everyone [who is not a hacker] likes eyecandy. I wouldn't normally say that if it wasn't about this discussion.
> There is no reason why the boot data can't go to a secondary display, > a serial terminal, or a printer, or a speaker as a bleep code, etc. Absolutely!
> In this case, boot data could be sent to a serial port, and the > graphics card initialised by the boot loader to display a "Please > wait, set top box booting up" screen, using a scan rate, which would > be acceptable to the television. In this case, we do not want the > kernel to change the video card setup at all. Yes! This is exactly what I want! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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