[Techtalk] Boot splash screen

[Dan Shearer]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 07:19:30PM +0100, David Sumbler wrote:
> 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!

How about creating a very small black-on-black spashscreen?

-- 
Dan Shearer
dan at shearer.org