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Subject: Re: Bootscreen
From: "Richard B. Tilley " "(Brad)" <rtilley@vt.edu>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 09:06, John Bradford wrote:
> > > It takes a while before the kernel starts init though, especially if you
> > > have things like SCSI controllers to initialise. If you do not use fb
> > > you can have your bootloader setup a pretty bootscreen, but if you need
> > > fb I don't see how you can prevent the textscreen with kernel messages.
> > 
> > I'd not really pondered people who compile many drivers into their kernel
> > instead of into the initrd. I guess a few people still do that.
> 
> I don't usually compile support for modules in at all.

Me neither. Guess we're a part of the "few"


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