Bug#215179: need fancy-pretty boot screens on the boot media
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 07:52:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> The current syslinux stuff for the boot floppies is quite bare. I don't
> remember about the cdrom. We need a nicely designed set of boot screens
> that is easy to ready and not offputting, but also provides all the
> information a user could want, including boot options (on a separate
> screen). The one from the boot-floppies should be looked at for useful
> ideas, but it is really too wordy and too intimidating.
The CD-ROM is the same as it was for woody, which is OK. I miss the option to
use it as a rescue disk, though -- trying to boot with root=/dev/hda1 proved
almost impossible (at least I never figured it out), as it insisted loading
the installer initrd every time.
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