Well, the workstations I have seen (Hp-UX at least) do it exactly as
my linux-ws here.. the kernel prints its initialization messages (as
linux does), and the bootup shell scripts display some
network [ ]
anything [ ]
boxes. Thie is exactly what I get here. I'm using special (perl!)
init scripts the do what I call "facility based" scripts.. There
is a configuration file that gives the facilities per run-level, the
scripts do the rest. I wrote them because I hated typing "ifconfig route etc.."
everytime I wanted to debug the config. Now I can just do "facility +slip_cerebro_solaris"
or "facility +inetd".
> Would it be that difficult to get different drivers to display their messages in a common
I never saw this, on no workstation. even sgis (that have something one could
call a "graphical bios :)") show all their messages in a text-window
while booting.
BTW: this whole thread has nothing to do with the linux-kernel,
you can ALWAYS do whatever you want when booting, including starting X
as the first thing from init and showing all messages on the X-server....
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