[PLUG] Boot questions

[Christopher N. Deckard]

You could look at Mandrake's stuff.  They have something called
aurora.  It uses the frame buffer and makes things "pretty."

I don't know how to turn off the logging.

-Chris

"patrick.t.finnegan.1" wrote:
> 
> I have two questions:
> 
> 1) Caldera and SuSE (and others im sure) use some sort of 'graphical
> boot'.  I was wondering if there was any documentation on doing this - I
> tried throwing google at it with no help.  I DO NOT mean "how do I boot in
> framebuffer mode" or "how do I make a lilo graphical boot menu" - I know
> how to do both of those.  Basicall while the kernel boots I want to
> display some graphic to obscure the display of kernel messages ( this
> will be for a turn-key type system ).
> 
> 2) What kernel parameters must i pass to reduce/avoid displaying the
> kernel messages. I tried a console=ttyX (where X!=0) and that didn't work
> - both with and without framebuffer enabled.
> 
> -- Pat
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