From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 7 12:51:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28581 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 12:51:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA28568 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 12:51:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA05414; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 12:49:10 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802072049.MAA05414@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Wilko Bulte , robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org, mike@smith.net.au, alk@pobox.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd0s1e hard errors In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 07 Feb 1998 00:48:55 EST." <34DBF5C7.167EB0E7@asme.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 07 Feb 1998 12:49:09 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > The splash screen stuff is another kettle of fish - I can think of a > > number of commercial folks who'd like their logo to come up when > > FreeBSD boots and such things don't interfere with text based installs > > anyway, so why not? > > > The fancy stuff can wait until *AFTER* the system is installed. The splash code adds almost nothing to the bootblocks; most of the growth is the "extras" section stuff, which should reduce the footprint required for the USERCONFIG_BOOT option. All of this becomes moot as soon as someone extracts their digit and writes the ELF bootloader. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com