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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 05:49:16PM +0100, jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote:

> Just an idea, (and slightly off-topic), but would it be possible,
> (I.E. not a copyright infringement, and not liable to mess up any
> checksums anywhere), to replace the logo that typically occurs in X86
> BIOSen and fades away at boot, with a penguin?

Yes. However it is by no means trivial, and aparently rather
easy to screw up.

http://www.google.com/search?q=replacing+bios+logo
will give you a few hundred places to begin.

        Dave

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| SuSE Labs
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