> Say, it there a way to "build" a screen that comes up with something > different to log in by and "hides" the "post" features that Linux shows as it > loading? I have some "ideas" for a new screen I'd like to have, but don't > know how to go about doing that. Help? Suggestions? >
The closest thing I've seen to hiding the boot messages from the kernel is the bootsplash work from the SuSe developers. http://www.bootsplash.org in the screen shot of the silent mode you can see the progress bar they use instead of the kernel messages. any other option will not suppress the initial kernel boot messages. Fedora has a graphical boot package that starts an X server after the initial kernel messages pass. Then it displays a graphical progress bar for the service startups.
