installation report (d-i 20040408)

Martin Michlmayr tbm@cyrius.com
Mon, 24 May 2004 20:00:14 +0100


* Bruno Majewski <bruno@pubnix.qc.ca> [2004-04-11 18:28]:
> (5)     Assuming grub and use a graphical splashscreen like lilo can, I am 
> surprised you did not make grub use one to make the boot process prettier. 
> If we want the "unwashed masses" to use Linux, we might was well make it 
> pretty. And that includes a graphical grub menu as well as using the 
> bootsplash kernel patch.  I should not have to patch & recompile my kernel 
> to make my machine not scream "geek!".

What's the status of having a version of GRUB in the archive which
displays a graphical boot screen?
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com