boot banner project
Matthew D. Fuller
fullermd at over-yonder.net
Wed Apr 27 14:26:42 PDT 2005
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:03:06PM -0400 I heard the voice of
Mike Edenfield, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> One possible alternative to an all-out graphics display would be a
> 'prettified' text console. I'm thinking of what Gentoo and older RedHat
> systems did (haven't used RH in years, dunno if this still applies)
> where about 80% of the system log messages are hidden behind a simple
> task list:
>
> Mounting File Systems ... [ok]
> Starting xl0 ... [ok]
This is something I've always found somewhat ironic, actually. I'm
not really sure overall whether I like it or not, but it IS very
structured and consistent. The irony is that I find the Linux kernel
bootup messages to be an insane mishmash that I can never sort
ANYTHING out of, relative to FreeBSD's very neat and structured kernel
probes. So maybe an OS is only allowed to be neat in one of the two
8-}
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