ganchero{at}cox.net wrote:

> atomic_frogii wrote:
> 
>>I think we should, if possible, try to clean up the eCS boot up.
>>1) Make it faster
>>but also important, and probably easier
>>2) Make it cleaner.
>>
>>The average user does not want to know what drivers are loaded. All
>>those driver messages are just useless for most people. I think this
>>is the way WinXP and MacOSX have gone and it's a good idea.
>>(We're still far better off than Linux, but...)
> 
> 
> There is "vgaoff.sys".  It's a device driver loaded at boot time which
> gives you a black screen from the e-ball until the video driver loads
> (last thing before before the desktop starts).
> 
> 
> 
>>The "bonus" is that whether you're booting eCS(OS/2) or
eCS(Linux) or
>>whatever it is will be the base of the new platform, even if it is a
>>virtual machine, the user should not know.
>>All the user needs to know is that he/she is booting eComStation.
>>
> 
> The above fits this requirement nicely, while still making it possible
> to watch the drivers loading, if required, simply by rem'ing out the
> line in config.sys.
> 
> Having said all that, I am now forced to apologise, because I no
> longer have the original zipfile, and the URL's referenced in the
> documentation are dead links, so I don't know where you might find the
> program today.  I looked on both Hobbes and LEO, but couldn't find
> anything.
> 
> According to the documentation, and I quote:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> "Operating condition
> 
>      * In the range which does not infringe on an author's "TEAM MMOS
> / 2 TOKYO"'s right, distribution and use are permitted freely."
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I guess that I would be legal to zip up the files I *do* have and send
> them along at your request.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Lon
> 

You might upload them to LEO and HOBBES too, just so they can be 
"shared" by everyone.


I would like to re-iterate my first post to this thread, which include 
some of the idea I have been seeing..

++++++++++++++++

A Quick Way to "hide" all messages, would be to have the Kernel to
"redirect" all messages to a "log" file, so every
device could "write"
to its "hearts content", and later after the boot, if Debug info is
needed, the Log could be looked at.

OTOH, with all that "scrolling" of Driver Output, I know my OS/2 system
is booting up, with Windows, you have to listen to the Hard Drive to see
if it is being slow today, or Frozen....

I guess I enjoy seeing the "Startup Chatter"..  But we could try to make
it selectable..

MarkO

+++++++++++++

On my OS/2 systems (I have 5 running at the moment), I don't think the 
presence of OutPut to the screen or lack of will effect the boot..  OS/2 
just seems to take its time loading.

IIRC, Microsoft started with about Win98, "optimizing" the load time by 
having Defrag, rearrange the StartUp files to be read in sequence, both 
the individual file, and following files, so that when the system needs 
to boot, it just starts reading the disk, in a Sequential Order, thus 
increasing the Load time of the OS greatly.  I don't think this was EVER 
done for OS/2, but it would help greatly...

MarkO


 
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