On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Dirk Staneker wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 1997 bofh@snoopy.virtual.net.au wrote:
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> > I think that we could get more benefit from having a nicer display of text messages than from a graphical splash-screen. What I would like to see is a screen that's similar to a HP workstation booting where you have check boxes for various bits of hardware and drivers which get ticked at appropriate stages of the boot up process. It looks nice, and clearly shows what's going on, unlike the Linux kernel.
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> > Would it be that difficult to get different drivers to display their messages in a common format for ease of reading?
> >
> >
> > Russell Coker
> >
> Well, in my opinion there is no need for a bootscreen with graphic/GUI
> but I think a common format for the messages would be really nice (this
> makes parsing errors with a program much easier) and the use of colors isn't
> very difficult and makes the screen much nicer to read (errors red...).
>
> Are there any standards for messages from kernel/syslogd...?
>
> Dirk
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> ;-)
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