Frank Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I like the look of the new bootsplash, but there's a slight glitch. If > you use a SCSI disk driver which takes a while to initialize (both > aic7xxx and aic79xx fall into this category, taking 15-30 seconds), > you're left looking at a blank bootsplash with what looks like an > empty textfield at the bottom right of the screen. > > At the least, there ought to be a "loading driver xxxxxx, please wait" > message somewhere so that the user doesn't think the boot is hung. > > With the old one, at least you had the Mandrake logo and the textarea. > The new one just looks incompletely drawn, contributing to the > appearance of a hang. Of course, the proposed message would have been > an improvement to the old one too.
Yes, I think that I will likely add one static image for the very first part of the boot with some message in the image such as "Booting, please wait" and switch to the translated version whenever the / is available. Maybe hack the initrd to send some progress bar update during kernel boot? Or more wisely hack the bootsplash kernel code to add some progress bar update during the kernel boot? Ah! I don't know. -- Warly
