On Wednesday 24 January 2001 15:33, Crossfire wrote:
> > > What's the one RedHat 7.0 uses?
>
> No, its still LILO, but with evil evil graphical boot menu hacks! NOOOOO!
Looks ugly
I'm sure they could have done better.
I would like to work on making the kernel bootup graphically, not just the
bootloader. I know it's so Windows like, but I want to do it even better, you
know how when KDE2, GNOME and BeOS all start up they have those icons that
light up as it goes through the startup process, well something like that
until xdm or a login prompt is reached.
I've already had a go at this and managed to hack the kernel to display a
full-screen image when it starts instead of a tiny penguin in the corner, and
also surpress the printks (not highly recommended :), but it sucks and is a
trivial hack. Really needs to be like Windows where if you hit ESC then you
see the messages, or even better if it was like Quake where it smoothly
scrolls down the messages or something like that.
I've thought about how to have those icons light up as the initialisiation
proceeds. Just write a user-space program to do it in the init scripts. Could
even have some kind of cool animation in the same way.
One major problem I can't get around however, is that to change the initial
image you have to recompile the kernel. I really want to fix that and can't
think of a nice clean way of doing it. Any suggestions?
John
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