Re: Ugly Boot on 2.2.15
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Ron Flory wrote:
> Lauri Tischler wrote:
> >
> > Why on earth has graphic boot screen selected as default on
> > kernel-2.2.15 on potato. It's ugly as hell and in graphic mode most
> > text based tools look ugly too.
>
> probably because many non x86 (m68k,alpha,sparc) machines require the
> FB device, and it makes for a more consistant environment for all
> arch's.
>
> I know several people who prefer the FB mode (instead of raw text
> mode), although I don't necessarily agree with them. You might try a
> differnt built-in font if you don't like the default one. FB mode has
> some nice features, but is definitely slower.
it's not just the font, but also the boot logo, which turns all sorts of
strange colors on my 1M Trident TGUI 9440 after the kernel is finished
booting and init starts. admittedly, this is just a crappy old 486, so
maybe most people don't have this problem.
anyway, I'm cool with whatever choice the boot-floppies folks make. they
have enough else to worry about than to be nit-picked on little things
like this.
Ben
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