11 Dec
2001
11 Dec
'01
02:09
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 01.01, Tim Harrell wrote:
I get a penguin image and a graphical green and white background when the choice of which kernel to boot is presented. As soon as I select a kernel to boot however it goes into 80x25 character mode for the bootup.
So does that mean the framebuffer is active?
No, it means it's inactive. The kernel selection screen is lilo. I think it uses vesa framebuffers, but I'm not sure. But this is before linux and its modules load. If you had been using framebuffers in linux you'd have either the penguin in the upper left corner, or the suse splash while the boot messages scrolled by. //Anders