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Warly wrote: | 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?
In that case I would suggest using an image talking by iself without the need of printed text in it. Tha will avoid the annoying english default.
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