Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Sun Feb 11 2001 - 17:47:18 EST

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Hi!

> Right. Add the option. Default to "spew mode",
> but make it easy for distributions to show people
> a non-threatening boot process.

Wrong.
>
> Since, as Christophe mentions, the boot messages would
> still be accessible via CTRL-ALT-F2, I don't see what
> the problem is with at least making this an option.

If your system crashes hard, you have only graphical logo to stare
at. Any warning messages are hidden. Not good.
Pavel

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