[Cooker] people about new boot screen (lilo?)
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.
RE: [Cooker] people about new boot screen (lilo?)
And reply to this is even more amusing :-) === Yea, we don't want no slick and shiny boot screens. After all this is the OS for true men (and women), people who have witnessed the rise of the transistor. Or maybe this is a nasty trick from the marketing department to get at big company buyers, reminding them of those happy drunken nights in front of a 64K machine when one had time to kill a sixpack while the soft loaded from tapes. Have you noticed that mdk is so fond of that screen that they extended default boot timeout to 10s? -- rcc
RE: [Cooker] people about new boot screen (lilo?)
I hate to say it (as much as I LOVE Mandrake) but there is some truth here. Actually, I find the SuSE boot screen one of the best looking . . (please don't flame!) - I still use Mandrake solely! It's actually a matter of taste - but most agree the existingboot screen in Mandrake B2 is not the best! Cheers! On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 14:24, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: And reply to this is even more amusing :-) === Yea, we don't want no slick and shiny boot screens. After all this is the OS for true men (and women), people who have witnessed the rise of the transistor. Or maybe this is a nasty trick from the marketing department to get at big company buyers, reminding them of those happy drunken nights in front of a 64K machine when one had time to kill a sixpack while the soft loaded from tapes. Have you noticed that mdk is so fond of that screen that they extended default boot timeout to 10s? -- rcc
Re: [Cooker] people about new boot screen (lilo?)
Borsenkow Andrej [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you noticed that mdk is so fond of that screen that they extended default boot timeout to 10s? No it's because with some screens, the synchro change is quite slow and takes time, so newbies might not react quick enough. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] people about new boot screen (lilo?)
On 30 Jan 2002 14:54:49 +0100 Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Borsenkow Andrej [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you noticed that mdk is so fond of that screen that they extended default boot timeout to 10s? No it's because with some screens, the synchro change is quite slow and takes time, so newbies might not react quick enough. Wouldn't it make more sense to start the timer later than extend it to include hard-to-predict-how-long delays due to other factors...? Just trying to help, Pierre
Re: [Cooker] people about new boot screen (lilo?)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Fox) writes: I hate to say it (as much as I LOVE Mandrake) but there is some truth here. Actually, I find the SuSE boot screen one of the best looking . . (please don't flame!) - I still use Mandrake solely! It's actually a matter of taste - but most agree the existingboot screen in Mandrake B2 is not the best! I just integrtated a new boot based on the implementation of Suse, stay tunned 8-). -- http://www.chmouel.org/
Re: [Cooker] people about new boot screen (lilo?)
Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No it's because with some screens, the synchro change is quite slow and takes time, so newbies might not react quick enough. Wouldn't it make more sense to start the timer later than extend it to include hard-to-predict-how-long delays due to other factors...? Later than what ? The timer starts when lilo is ready to accept keys, it could hardly start later on. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] people about new boot screen (lilo?)
Borsenkow Andrej [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And reply to this is even more amusing :-) === Yea, we don't want no slick and shiny boot screens. After all this is the OS for true men (and women), people who have witnessed the rise of the transistor. Or maybe this is a nasty trick from the marketing department to get at big company buyers, reminding them of those happy drunken nights in front of a 64K machine when one had time to kill a sixpack while the soft loaded from tapes. Have you noticed that mdk is so fond of that screen that they extended default boot timeout to 10s? Our graphist will appreciate :-) If you have very complex pictures to display, you can use latest lilo which contains a quite small pieces of SuSe patch to extend message file to 512Kb. Enjoy, François.
Re: [Cooker] people about new boot screen (lilo?)
On 30 Jan 2002 17:46:10 +0100 Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No it's because with some screens, the synchro change is quite slow and takes time, so newbies might not react quick enough. Wouldn't it make more sense to start the timer later than extend it to include hard-to-predict-how-long delays due to other factors...? Later than what ? The timer starts when lilo is ready to accept keys, it could hardly start later on. OK... I get it... then why not start accepting keystrokes as soon as the MBR is read and make the timer even longer... :^) :^) My point was related to extending an existing timer to handle something which problably should not be within the timed period in the first place. Pierre
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Neuromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does that mean we can have something like this now? http://www.gamers.org/~quinet/lilo/penguins.html No this is lilo stuff, remember i take care of kernel thingies. -- http://www.chmouel.org/
