Re: Boot Logo Thoughts (LONG)
david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
14 May 1998 00:23:45 -0700
In article <linux.kernel.6jdutn$h4p$1@palladium.transmeta.com>,
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> wrote:
>Followup to: <6jdm05$1cl@pell.pell.portland.or.us>
>By author: o.r.c@transmeta.com (david parsons)
>In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>>
>> Yes; the patch that was posted here a while back (which went
>> *immediately* into my kernel tree) does that. The only place
>> where it fails is that it then drops the machine back into
>> ickytextmode when the machine finishes loading and goes into
>> ia32 mode. I'm working on fixing that, though I've gotten
>> some interesting "Hi! I'm the boot image and I'm going to
>> stand here smiling at you until you get bored and push the
>> Big Red Switch" crashes in the process.
>>
>
>"IA32 mode?"
80386 mode. (I can't bring myself to use the popular names
for 80386/8086 mode.)
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