Re: color boot text

2002-06-04 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 02 June 2002 04:44, Tom Barnes-Lawrence wrote: Could it be possible to create a program, lets call it colourify for example (I don't know of one), such that when the init scripts run a program, they direct the program's standard error (or standard output if appropriate) stream

Re: color boot text

2002-06-04 Thread prover
: Nicos Gollan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tom Barnes-Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David Z Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 11:07 AM Subject: Re: color boot text On Sunday 02 June 2002 04:44, Tom Barnes-Lawrence wrote: Could it be possible to create

RE: color boot text

2002-06-03 Thread Jeremy Turner
-Original Message- From: Paul Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian could standardize this, but why? How often to you really watch your system reboot? How often _do_ you reboot, after all, it is linux? =) Well, to be honest, I have a laptop that requires

color boot text

2002-06-01 Thread nick lidakis
I would like to have my thinkpad x22 boot with colored text. Simple red will do. Is that possible without using the framebuffer? If I remember correctly, a friend running red hat had color text while his machine was booting. Is there a howto on how to set this up? nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: color boot text

2002-06-01 Thread David Z Maze
nick lidakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to have my thinkpad x22 boot with colored text. Simple red will do. Is that possible without using the framebuffer? Nothing about booting Linux, in general, is inherently black-and-white. But... If I remember correctly, a friend running

Re: color boot text

2002-06-01 Thread Tom Barnes-Lawrence
Hi, you wrote: If I remember correctly, a friend running red hat had color text while his machine was booting. Is there a howto on how to set this up? ...Red Hat's init scripts do some really bizarre things, but one of the consequences of this is that they print output in a ~standard

Re: color boot text

2002-06-01 Thread Paul Miller
This would actually be very simple. Just create an included script with two functions -- init_fail() and init_ok(). These functions simple print failed or ok in color. Next, just include this script (. /etc/init.d/color_funcs.sh) in every init.d script. Finally, change done to init_ok(),