Re: [tlug] Sorry to Hijack a thread but whats wrong with LILO

[Martin Baehr <mbaehr@example.com>]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:57:46PM +0900, Mike Gauthier wrote:
> There is nothing... ohhhh nothing... like the goodness that is a Unix
> boot screen.  Why would you want it animated? 

i have to stare at it everyday for 5 minutes while waiting for the thing
to come up.  i'd like some amusement while that is happening.

> How else would you know that your kernel just freaked out?  
> Does the dancing boot screen penguin throw up or something?

that's be cute :-)
i suppose if the kernel freezes the animation stops.
there is not much you can do at that point anyways.

this feature is abviously not for servers...

greetings, martin.
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