Re: Bootscreen

Robert Morris
2003-01-28T12:06:38Z

Hello there,

> Kiosks and things like ATMs are another place where you do not want
> a bootscreen. You do not want to possibly confuse customers with
> stuff that they can't understand but show a nice friendly message saying
> 'the system is currently unavailable'.

I once saw an ATM with a Windows NT "blue screen" error message :-)

FWIW, I wouldn't have responded to Raphael's post in the way I did, if he
said something along the lines of "I'm using Linux in a TV set-top
box|ATM|kiosk application, and I want to hide the standard boot-up output
with a nice graphic".

Robert Morris
08707 458710