boot banner project

From: /dev/null <null_at_dnswatch.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:09:15 -0700 (PDT)
Hello any & all,
 O.K. I feel I must preface this with an acknowledgment that I *know*
this is a silly project *because* given the *incredibly* long uptimes
that FreeBSD is known for. >>But<< for those *few* times when FreeBSDers
see a boot screen, shouldn't it look really nice? Shouldn't also be able
to reflect the Administrators tastes and personality? Well, this is the
premise for my attempting this project. But before I start, I want to
submit an RFC. So consider this an Request for comments. This is an
attempt to create a Graphical boot screen that initially has the
following layout:
(a fixed width font required to view the layout correctly)
 --------------------------------------------------------
|  some                                                  |
|     sort                                               |
|        of                                              |
|    graphic       goes   in   this   area               |
|--------------------------------------------------------
|    boot                                                |
|                                                        |
|   messages                                             |
|                                                        |
|    seen                                                |
|                                                        |
|         here                                           |
|   bla...                                               |
|          bla...                                        |
|                 bla...                                 |
---------------------------------------------------------

-Chris

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Received on Wed Apr 27 2005 - 04:09:21 UTC

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