Sanjay Nadkarni wrote: > ... > > I also tried using the hiddenmenu option in GRUB. This worked fine. > However I am not sure I liked the effect. What I saw a black screen. > At the top of the screen was a line with the count down to boot. The > background/foreground for this line was blue on white. So the visual > effect was not pleasing to me. I would be interested in feedback from > others especially Frank and the JDS folks. > > -Sanjay > The hidden menu option was proposed as part of CoolStart a couple of years ago. The design called for a graphic background to be displayed during the hidden menu pause that was virtually identical to the subsequent "Solaris booting" progress screen, except that the hidden menu background included some text to type ESC for boot options - no countdown.
Pehaps the hidden menu option provides an arguments to display a background graphic and/or suppress the countdown? Frank
