[Techtalk] Boot splash screen

[David Sumbler]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Tricia Bowen wrote:

> To see what your bootup messages are, issue the following command:
> $ dmesg | more

But this only gives me the Linux part of the boot process; it's the
BIOS bit itself that is in question.

However, using

dd if=/dev/mem bs=64k skip=15 count=1 >/tmp/bios
strings /tmp/bios | less

I find that I have an Award BIOS.

So I've looked at http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/awbmtools.shtml
as suggested by Susie.  Unfortunately this tells you how to create
your own splash screen, but not, so far as I can see, how to get rid
of one altogether!

Probably just have to live with it!

David

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