On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 04:53, Arindam Dey wrote:
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 02:39, Kreg Steppe wrote:
> Fedora has a Graphical boot already.
> Nice too...
>
> Kreg
>
> Antti A wrote:
>
Nope Fedora does not have a graphical boot. What I mean by this is , the
graphical part starts only after init starts. It is not a "complete"
graphical boot up.
What this guy is suggesting, bootsplash graphical boot starts from the
Kernel message stage. This is made by the SuSE developer itself. It is
also quite cool. It even lets you set background on your virtual
consoles any jpeg image you want and that too a different one on each
console.
So anybody from the Fedora project care to comment as to why something
like this cannot be included ?
Fedora doesn't need this boot-splash... it
modifies the kernel too much,
it makes it inaccessible to other patches.
The only thing missing from the "eye-candy" graphical-boot is a kernel
logo... That can easily be solved by adding the Linux-logo patch
http://www.arnor.net/linuxlogo/. I'm recommending this patch because the
logo is easy to integrate AND especially because you can hide the
pointer while booting through a default kernel parameter, and, because
it is still useful, you can re-enable it by adding only one line in
rc.sysinit. This way it would be a nice way to have a boot-logo. The
advantages of RHGB over boot-splash, should be evident, if not I'll
mention the fact that being a native GTK2 application it can look
consistent with the rest of the Linux GUI + usually X11 is faster that
plain-old frame-buffer, especially on old computers.
One thing that RHGB is missing is support for a
shut-down/restart/run-level change comeback.
Another one is the lack of a GRUB VBE patch for VBE logo... The existing
one is not really good quality like the VGA splash patch. If they could
try to improve-it a little... it would be great. I thing it can still be
found in the debian-request list... If not I can mail-it to anyone with
enough patience and know-ledge to bring-it to release-quality code.