Complete graphical boot for Fedora

[gangaraju.chowki]

HI,

AS WE ARE BOOTING THE SYSTEM WITH FEDORA LINUX-2.6.9
AFTER SELECTING AT GRUB MENU ,FIRST THE TEXT MESSAGES LIKE
title fedora (2.6.9-fedora)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-fedora ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-fedora.img
Uncompressing the kernel
Nash version-...etc
welcome to fedora
Starting udev
Initialising hardware storage network audio

THEN GRAPHICAL BOOT(X SERVER) STARTS , ALL TEXT MESSAGES ARE HIDDEN
AND ONLY A IMAGE WITH PROGRESS BAR IS SHOWN.

BUT I WANT TO BUILD MY KERNEL AS WHEN SELECTING AT GRUB MENU IT SHOULD
NOT SHOW ANY KIND OF TEXT MESSAGES,BUT ONLY GRAPHICAL IMAGE WITH
PROGRESS BAR
LIKE WINDOWS OS .
AND THE SAME IDEA I WANT TO IMPEMENT WHILE SHUTDOWN.
I HOPE YOU UNDERSTOOD ME .
PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
-- 
Warm Regards,

Gangaraju.Chowki
Software Engineer,
Host Technologies Ltd,
Banjara Hills,Road No:12,
Hyderabad.

[Kevin A. Wright]

In all seriousness, what obstacles are there to the implementation of this?
Perhaps I understand why the initial stuff like uncompressing the kernel,
starting udev, etc is in text, but what trouble would it be to extend the
graphical boot to a graphical shutdown?  I'd like to help in any way I can.

Kevin

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Subject: Complete graphical boot for Fedora


HI,

AS WE ARE BOOTING THE SYSTEM WITH FEDORA LINUX-2.6.9
AFTER SELECTING AT GRUB MENU ,FIRST THE TEXT MESSAGES LIKE
title fedora (2.6.9-fedora)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-fedora ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-fedora.img
Uncompressing the kernel
Nash version-...etc
welcome to fedora
Starting udev
Initialising hardware storage network audio

THEN GRAPHICAL BOOT(X SERVER) STARTS , ALL TEXT MESSAGES ARE HIDDEN
AND ONLY A IMAGE WITH PROGRESS BAR IS SHOWN.

BUT I WANT TO BUILD MY KERNEL AS WHEN SELECTING AT GRUB MENU IT SHOULD
NOT SHOW ANY KIND OF TEXT MESSAGES,BUT ONLY GRAPHICAL IMAGE WITH
PROGRESS BAR
LIKE WINDOWS OS .
AND THE SAME IDEA I WANT TO IMPEMENT WHILE SHUTDOWN.
I HOPE YOU UNDERSTOOD ME .
PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
--
Warm Regards,

Gangaraju.Chowki
Software Engineer,
Host Technologies Ltd,
Banjara Hills,Road No:12,
Hyderabad.


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[Richard Hughes]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 10:22 -0400, Kevin A. Wright wrote:
>  In all seriousness, what obstacles are there to the implementation of
> this?
>  Perhaps I understand why the initial stuff like uncompressing the kernel,
>  starting udev, etc is in text, but what trouble would it be to extend the
>  graphical boot to a graphical shutdown?  I'd like to help in any way I can. 
Shouldn't shutdown just take a few seconds at most?

I know Fedora sometimes takes ages with the /sbin/service <daemon> stop
routine, but I'm sure some daemons don't *require* this.

Is there any way we can quicken this up by not calling the stop script?

Richard.

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:22:42AM -0400, Kevin A. Wright wrote:
>  In all seriousness, what obstacles are there to the implementation of
> this? 
You need to write code that works on every video card. There are a couple
of ways to tackle that. One would be to fallback for non-VGA cards and use
strictly VGA 640x480x16 modes without timing jiggery-pokery.

Another would be to put up a logo/info area on screen by flipping to
512 character text mode and using a mini font that makes up the logo

[Luke Macken]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 15:41 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
>  Shouldn't shutdown just take a few seconds at most?
>  
>  I know Fedora sometimes takes ages with the /sbin/service <daemon> stop
>  routine, but I'm sure some daemons don't *require* this.
>  
>  Is there any way we can quicken this up by not calling the stop script? 
We are currently looking into alternatives to SysVinit.  Once we get rid
of that monstrosity, the startup/shutdown process will most likely be
significantly faster.

luke

[Kevin Verma]

Gangaraju,

Fedora Core uses, Red Hat Graphical Boot (RHGB) for the startup and
shutdown eye candy, however there are couple of alternatives as of
today:

e.g. Boot Splash http://bootsplash.org , functionality similar to
bootsplash is also built into software suspend 2 for linux.

I really think Fedora must provide choice. By the way Gangaraju,
Fedora can benefit lot from your software engineering contributions, I
hope you will come up with a better solution.

Cheers,

On 10/20/05, Gangaraju <gangaraju.chowki(a)host-technology.com&gt; wrote:
>  HI,
>
>  AS WE ARE BOOTING THE SYSTEM WITH FEDORA LINUX-2.6.9
>  AFTER SELECTING AT GRUB MENU ,FIRST THE TEXT MESSAGES LIKE
>  title fedora (2.6.9-fedora)
>  root (hd0,0)
>  kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-fedora ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
>  initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-fedora.img
>  Uncompressing the kernel
>  Nash version-...etc
>  welcome to fedora
>  Starting udev
>  Initialising hardware storage network audio
>
>  THEN GRAPHICAL BOOT(X SERVER) STARTS , ALL TEXT MESSAGES ARE HIDDEN
>  AND ONLY A IMAGE WITH PROGRESS BAR IS SHOWN.
>
>  BUT I WANT TO BUILD MY KERNEL AS WHEN SELECTING AT GRUB MENU IT SHOULD
>  NOT SHOW ANY KIND OF TEXT MESSAGES,BUT ONLY GRAPHICAL IMAGE WITH
>  PROGRESS BAR
>  LIKE WINDOWS OS .
>  AND THE SAME IDEA I WANT TO IMPEMENT WHILE SHUTDOWN.
>  I HOPE YOU UNDERSTOOD ME .
>  PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
>  --
>  Warm Regards,
>
>  Gangaraju.Chowki
>  Software Engineer,
>  Host Technologies Ltd,
>  Banjara Hills,Road No:12,
>  Hyderabad.
>
>
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