Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 19:38:35 -0800 From: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) To: jehamby@lightside.com, jfieber@indiana.edu Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot messages (was: Sun Workshop compiler vs. GCC?) Message-ID: <199702160338.TAA05806@lightside.com>
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John Fieber writes: > On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, Jake Hamby wrote: > > > I also suggest that FreeBSD add a splash screen with clearly printed > > directions on how to bypass it to see the hardware probes underneath. > > The windows 95 splash screen disappears at the press of Escape, > revealing whatever is going on on the console (not much usually). > I'd hazzard a guess that anyone clever enough to know what the > FreeBSD probe messages mean is probably clever enough to figure > out "Escape" within about 4 keystrokes. :) Yes, but as has already been mentioned, the device probes are run with interrupts off, which means the keyboard press can't be detected? In which case I suggest we simply add a boot option to the kernel to disable the splash screen, or perhaps overload "-v". Then you can simply put, in small print at the bottom of the splash screen, "To disable this startup screen, boot with '-v'." Sounds good? -- Jake
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