Re: wish-list (yes, it's the boot screen thread).

Pavel Machek (pavel@elf.ucw.cz)
Thu, 14 May 1998 11:58:10 +0200


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Hi!

I hate to join this stupid thread, but these are probably first
sensible words said.

(I've other plan to kernel messages: Make kernel boot so fast that
normal lusers can not see anything because it just scrolls too fast.)

> 2) hacked bzlilo to throw up an optional boot logo of whatever
> type.

What do you mean by hacking bzlilo? If you mean hacked kernel, I have
that patch. If you mean hacked lilo, then that is wrong place. Think
about grub. You don't want to have logoos in all oses in bootloader
:-). [Patch attached. Its only 3K, so I hope it is ok.]

> 4) maybe some *small* mods to printk might even be in order to
> a) replace messages by '.' if some kernel_boot_nolog variable is set?
> b) or, colorized messages based on log level?
> [careful, I don't want the color codes to clog up my on-disk
> syslog, and the solution must be cross-platform. This would
> have to be a config option, certainly.]

Someone already did 4b.

> I think the discussion is over. It's time to start coding.

Ook, look at attached patch.

Pavel

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