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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 12:36:40 +0100
From: Werner Almesberger <Werner.Almesberger@epfl.ch>
To: Miles Lane <miles@megapathdsl.net>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1
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Miles Lane wrote:
> Since, as Christophe mentions, the boot messages would
> still be accessible via CTRL-ALT-F2, I don't see what 
> the problem is with at least making this an option.

Except if some initialization hangs your machine so badly that it even
won't respond to Ctrl-Alt-F2.

This could of course be cured by a little window where the last three or
four printk lines are shown ...

- Werner

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