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.
