rcc wrote:
>
> David D. Huff Jr. wrote:
>
> > Xanadu wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:34:18 -0500, David D. Huff Jr. wrote:
> >>
> >> > After all these releases, why did Mandrake change their style of
boot
> >> > screen?
> >> >
> >> > The new one looks terrible, it reminds me of an 8 bit dos
application
> >> > booting on an 8088 or 8086.
> >> >
> >> > If you read the display quickly it would be easy to imagine you
were
> >> > booting into Madefordos v. 81.0 !! :((
> >>
> >> You're saying the dumb things where unreadable text is sitting
under the
> >> MDK logo? If so I freakin' hated it myself. Don't use it. I
still use
> >> Aurora, but I use:
> >>
> >> Aurora-Monitor-Traditional-WsLib-8.2-18mdk
> >>
> >> Install that one. It;'s more like the mormal Linux bootup where it
shows
> >> each service individlay with a OK or FAILED status. Much nicer...
> >>
> >> P.S.
> >> I forget if you have to do this after installing that package but:
> >>
> >> ln -s /lib/aurora/Monitors/Traditional-WsLib /etc/aurora/Monitor
> >>
> >> That makes it work. :-)
> >
> > Actually I was speaking of the initial install boot, if you think
the
> > lilo or grub standard display is pitiful, you'll absolutely want to
barf
> > when you boot the Mandrake 8.2 beta1 install disk.
>
> you mean that whitish box with that greyish font that reminds one of
C64
> and Atari800 times?
>
> -- rcc
Ahh, yup.
