From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
To: brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Horst von Brand)
Cc: Raphael_Schmid@CUBUS.COM, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
brand@eeyore.valparaiso.cl
Subject: Re: AW: Bootscreen
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:18:58 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301291018.h0TAIw8s000968@darkstar.example.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301291010.h0TAANrh011961@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> from "Horst von Brand" at Jan 29, 2003 11:10:23 AM
> > > I just upgraded from 3.6.1, which booted fine, to 3.6.2, which stops
> > > after Tux has waved twice, and winked his left eye.
> > >
> > Sounds pretty fun to me!
>
> Right.
>
> Q: It hangs when booting! Just get to see the cute penguin
> (whatshisnameagain?)
>
> A: What version of Linux? What exactly did the bird do before hanging? BTW,
> his (her?) name is Tux
>
> Q: Oh, yo mean like $BIG_DISTRO 10.7.3? Yep, Tux winked.
>
> A. No, the kernel version... [longish explanation deleted]. And exactly how
> many times did he wink? Which wings? Did he waddle about? How many
> steps? Did he blink? Did you install wink-blink-boot version 27.3, or
> are you still with the older one?
>
> [ad nauseam]
The funny thing is, in a few years, somebody will probably read
through these old comments in the archive, and decide to implement the
animated Tux boot sequence just for a laugh, and then we really *will*
get bug reports like that. I will then probably get flamed for
suggesting it in the begining :-).
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-29 10:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-28 14:47 AW: Bootscreen Raphael Schmid
2003-01-29 10:10 ` Horst von Brand
2003-01-29 10:18 ` John Bradford [this message]
2003-01-29 15:16 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-29 14:01 Raphael Schmid
2003-01-29 11:56 Raphael Schmid
2003-01-29 12:33 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-01-29 13:54 ` John Bradford
2003-01-29 15:11 ` Dave Jones
2003-01-29 14:00 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-01-28 15:18 Raphael Schmid
2003-01-28 14:58 Raphael Schmid
2003-01-28 15:52 ` Stephen Wille Padnos
2003-01-28 17:05 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-28 14:53 Raphael Schmid
2003-01-28 18:21 ` Aaron Lehmann
2003-01-28 14:51 Raphael Schmid
2003-01-28 14:48 Raphael Schmid
2003-01-28 15:41 ` Xavier Bestel
2003-01-28 14:46 Raphael Schmid
2003-01-28 14:11 Raphael Schmid
2003-01-28 14:26 ` John Bradford
2003-01-28 14:29 ` Robert Morris
2003-01-28 12:52 Raphael Schmid
2003-01-28 10:01 Raphael Schmid
2003-01-28 10:32 ` John Bradford
2003-01-28 10:45 ` Alex Riesen
2003-01-28 9:57 Raphael Schmid
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=200301291018.h0TAIw8s000968@darkstar.example.net \
--to=john@grabjohn.com \
--cc=Raphael_Schmid@CUBUS.COM \
--cc=brand@eeyore.valparaiso.cl \
--cc=brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox