Duncan, The 2004.3 boot cd for AMD64 has a splash screen. Like you I prefer to see my system bitch at my stupidity instead of just hang so I don't know about the installed system.
Cheers, Tres On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 02:46 -0700, Duncan wrote: > Gregory Symons posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted > below, on Thu, 14 Apr 2005 01:00:03 -0400: > > > I've been trying to get gensplash working on my 2.6.11-gentoo-sources > > I don't use an initrc/initramfs, and don't have much use for splash > screens obscuring kernel init information I like to see. Further, my info > may be dated or related to some other kernel splash functionality. > However, the above disclaimer in mind... > > I read some time (a year?) ago that the kernel splash wasn't working on > 64-bit amd64 kernels, and I've seen no posts verifying that it indeed > /does/ now work. (If it does, such a reply should be forthcoming. =8^) > -- -- [email protected] mailing list
