Bug#215179: need fancy-pretty boot screens on the boot media
On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 01:35, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> 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.
>
> /* Steinar */
I recommend that we add the grub rescue floppy image to the CD image;
very useful for rescuing broken boots, and self-contained; pretty well
tested in its own right.
- Alastair
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