On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 16:55, Rob Park wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> > There is a spot on the boot screen where you can click and get the
> > good ol' text startup screen displayed. It's up to you which you
> > prefer.
>
> No, you're missing the point.
>
> IIRC, that graphical boot won't display *anything* until you've hit
> runlevel 5. fsck'ing discs happens before the runlevel switch.
>
> So, if you're fsck'ing, the graphical boot will just sit there and do
> nothing, no status output whatsoever, not even if you click "show
> output". THen, when the fsck'ing is done, it will display the bootup
> procedure, as per usual.
How about a new idea? It doesn't sound like you guys have seen that
cool project with the LCD screen...you can go headless, yet watch the
bootup sequence, then at the end, tell it to start showing status on
those cool little squares that make up letters.
Sure, it's not LEDs, but it'll scratch that itch for the old days.
And on the upside, it's made to fit into a 5" drive bay (like are so
prevelantly empty these days.
http://www.mv.net/ipusers/cdwalker/lpt_driver.html
The original home page is down right now...something about
copyrights, etc.
Enjoy!
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