New kernel packages - please test!

[Nathaniel McCallum]

On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 15:13 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 08:01:14AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
> > My relatively uninteresting i686 test box rebooted okay and is running fine.
> > Would be keen to test on my toilet seat iBook, though.
> > 
> > There is a lot of flashy stuff as grub starts; something at the top of the
> > screen with "ESC", a couple of flashes, then the grub summary of what it's
> > booting (can we kill that?) and then "Starting Ubuntu..." But the quietness
> > is nice! :)
> 
> Yeah, that's unrelated to the kernel; you're noticing Nathaniel's recent
> changes to grub etc. to quiet them down.  You're seeing a flash like a mode
> change?  Does it help if you disable the splash image?

The mode change goes away if we remove the splash image, at least on my
box.  However, it makes the nice menu splash go away as well.  Neither
windows nor mac have a splash screen if you interrupt their boot process
at the bootloader level (windows has a b/w menu, mac has a command
prompt).  Should we just disable splash?

Nathaniel