Re: Graphical boot isn't so graphical

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:46:06PM +0100, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote: 
> Well the code from bootsplash.org  works with Shrike (still another 12
> hours for severn to download), it didn't take much to get working, a few
> patches to the kernel, add the images and config to the initrd.img, add
> vga=XXX to the kernel paramteres- and it works as advertised. 
> 
> I can't comment on how it compares with what's in severn just yet.
> 
> The bootsplash.org is what SuSE use for their graphical boot-up. I'm
> guessing at this point that RedHat have committed to serverns way of
> doing things (at least for the near future.)

Our kernel developers have an "over my dead body" attitude toward that
patch, I believe. ;-)

Havoc