Re: lilo/grub image background? [was Re: bootsplash option for d-i?]

[Xan <DXpublica@telefonica.net>]

Dimarts 16 Novembre 2004 21:29, en/na Andrew Pollock (<Andrew Pollock 
<apollock@debian.org>>) va escriure:
>>Re: lilo/grub image background? [was Re: bootsplash option for d-i?]
>
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 08:06:25PM +0100, Xan wrote:
> > > > Since we're mentioning Ubuntu, the reason we rejected the bootsplash
> > > > patch for the Ubuntu kernel was that including it broke the part of
> > > > the installer that starts up the framebuffer in a way that we
> > > > concluded was impossible to repair within the design of bootsplash.
> >
> > And what's about lilo/grub background image?. Is that an option in d-i?
> > Perhaps an interesting thing: if we could not have the bootsplash, we
> > could have lilo/grub graphical display.
>
> I believe that boils down to the grub and lilo packages providing one, and
> there being a consensus on what the image should be...
>
> I have also heard that in certain combinations of hardware, kicking into
> the video mode required to display the graphic causes issues, so in the
> interests of reliability, it has been left alone.
>
> regards

Okay. Thanks. I see that debian seems "less-graphical" than another distro 
veyr long time :)

Regards,
Xan.
>
> Andrew