[openbeos] Re: Haiku Bootscreen

On 20/06/07, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Ronny Wisor wrote (2007-06-20, 16:17:45 [+0200]):
> > Wouldnt it be cool to have "Copyright Haiku Inc" on the
> > Bootscreen. And
> > something that shows what happens during the boot procedure like a
> > status
> > indicator. It should be simple.
> The improvements should be limited to give a message at the beginning
> that
> you can press space to enter the menu, and that it uses the new logo.
> Any
> more than that could be considered wasted effort at the moment. At
> least
> until we have some more urgent tasks accomplished. :-)

You only have like 50 msecs to actually press the space bar to enter
the boot menu; after that, it's too late already. Until that works
differently (if possible, as that's the point where the kernel and the
boot modules are loaded), there is little point in adding that text,
though :-)

Bye,
   Axel.


I must admit I have noticed that.  It's a pain when you have to go in
there every time to turn off IDE DMA...

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