rhgb and gdm-early-login two great tastes?

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 01:11:09PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> real reason for wanting kernel modesetting is so we can do this stuff
> all the way forward in the boot process, basically as soon as you hit
> the initramfs.  This lets you mask the fact that kernel init still takes
> >10s on most hardware.

You can run X as init if you want or just flip to vga mode which seems to
be how windows does its initial "gee stuff is happening" display