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stevenpharris n00b
Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 8
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 11:10 am Post subject: Hiding boot-process kernel messages |
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My former Linux distro (MDK8.2) had a Windows 2000-like progress bar boot process.
Is there a way to hide/unhide Gentoo kernel messages during the boot process so as to give a more polished boot?
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nempo Guru
Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 360 Location: Linkoping, Sweden
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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I think your looking for the "Linux progress" kernel patch, go here http://lpp.freelords.org/ |
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arkane l33t
Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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Last I checked that project wasn't really of any use to anyone running a 2.4 kernel that was worth anything. The patch wouldn't go in clean on a 2.4.18 kernel (from kernel.org) so that pretty much means it's worthless. |
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delta407 Bodhisattva
Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 2876 Location: Chicago, IL
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Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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Not so much "worthless" as "in need of coaxing".
Also, I hear Redflag Linux (the official distro of communist China) does this. _________________ I don't believe in witty sigs. |
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arkane l33t
Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2002 2:45 am Post subject: |
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I wonder if everyone going over to 2.5+ kernels would coax them enough? lol
I think even debian is close to migrating totally over to 2.4 soon... now that in itself tells you that anything before 2.4 is a lost cause for mainstream.
I've been looking for something like this myself. My system works fine 99.9% of the time, and it would be cool to have something like that (or hell, even the splashscreen like Windows 95/98 or 2000 have with the bar) on screen to make it look better on boot.
It doesn't make anyone want to switch any sooner when I show them a blog of system code on the screen when you start it. (thats what it looks like to them) |
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rommel Veteran
Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 1145 Location: Williamsburg Virginia
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Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2002 3:36 am Post subject: |
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lol |
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arkane l33t
Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 7:36 am Post subject: |
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Okay,
I contacted the author (?) of the Linux Progress Patch via email, because I was really wanting this. He said that you can pick up the patch for 2.4.18 at ftp://oss.gonicus.de/pub/goto
(choose the 2.4.18 selection)
I just patched my 2.4.18 vanilla kernel with "bunzip2 linux-goto-patch-2.4.18-1.bz2 ; patch -p0 < linux-goto-patch-2.4.18-1" in the /usr/src directory. Of course you'd need the bz2 file there too
Now, I haven't done anything with it yet. I'll mess with it tomorrow, but I wanted to let ya all know that.
PLEASE backup your /usr/src/linux-* directory before applying the patch. It'll make life easier in case it doesn't go in smooth for some reason... |
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