> In article <linux.kernel.199703250409.PAA06192@svhmfw01.svhm.org.au>,
> Andrew Vanderstock <ajv@greebo.svhm.org.au> wrote:
>
> >I'd also like to see much better boot management. The idea of an OS booting
> >to a textual display in 1997 is ridiculous.
>
> No, it isn't. It's not as pretty as booting to a no-icky-text-here
> graphical display, but it's perfectly usable. But be that as it
> may, are you working on such a thing? I'm doing research into a
> modification that will drop a boot picture onto the system (probably
> the NT login banner, so dimwitted managers won't run shrieking in
> terror at the thought of a usable OS in their hands) and would be
> happy to drop it like a hot potato if someone else was already doing
> the work.
>
Well, I don't need no freaking image on the screen, with flicking over
to text mode whenever sth happens (like win95 does) and you can't see
what happens, especially if there's an error while booting.
All my machines (except my laptop, but there's a login without pw for
that) start xdm when they are up, there's the graphical thing I want to
see when the boot is done. (Except for the server where there's nobody
supposed to start X...)
Klaus
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