boot banner project

[Glenn Dawson]

At 11:09 PM 4/26/2005, /dev/null wrote:
>Hello any & all,
>  O.K. I feel I must preface this with an acknowledgment that I *know*
>this is a silly project *because* given the *incredibly* long uptimes
>that FreeBSD is known for. >>But<< for those *few* times when FreeBSDers
>see a boot screen, shouldn't it look really nice? Shouldn't also be able
>to reflect the Administrators tastes and personality? Well, this is the
>premise for my attempting this project. But before I start, I want to
>submit an RFC. So consider this an Request for comments. This is an
>attempt to create a Graphical boot screen that initially has the
>following layout:
>(a fixed width font required to view the layout correctly)
>  --------------------------------------------------------
>|  some                                                  |
>|     sort                                               |
>|        of                                              |
>|    graphic       goes   in   this   area               |
>|--------------------------------------------------------
>|    boot                                                |
>|                                                        |
>|   messages                                             |
>|                                                        |
>|    seen                                                |
>|                                                        |
>|         here                                           |
>|   bla...                                               |
>|          bla...                                        |
>|                 bla...                                 |
>---------------------------------------------------------

Isn't this essentially what splash(4)is for?

-Glenn

>-Chris
>
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