From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 16 16:38:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA09607 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 16:38:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA09598 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 16:38:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id LAA06286; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 11:07:55 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702170037.LAA06286@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: boot messages (Was: Sun Workshop compiler vs. GCC?) In-Reply-To: from Daniel O'Callaghan at "Feb 17, 97 11:33:17 am" To: danny@panda.hilink.com.au (Daniel O'Callaghan) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 11:07:54 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, eivind@dimaga.com, giles@nemeton.com.au, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, jehamby@lightside.com, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Daniel O'Callaghan stands accused of saying: > > Seems to me that the most logical and expedient thing to so is to put a > little more text into the "boot: " message. There really isn't room for this. > Something like "boot -t for text-mode boot". In an environment where the splash is likely to be useful, the '-v' output is a viable alternative. The splash code (now) doesn't display the splash if the bootverbose (-v) flag is set. > The other idea which was tossed about some > months ago was to skip the splash screen if the image file (/splash.tiff) is > not located in /, which makes it very easy to turn splash on/off for the > next boot. That's no good, as was mentioned back then; the root filesystem isn't available early enough. Bruce's new readfile() stiff OTOH is ideal for this, and I'm looking at what can be done in this regard. > Danny -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[