[SeaBIOS] Show bootsplash already during device detection?

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Wed Aug 24 13:29:29 CEST 2016


On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 08:53:15AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear SeaBIOS folks,
> 
> Playing with the bootsplash feature, I noticed, that it’s only
> displayed when the boot menu is displayed, when no bootsplash is used.

The bootsplash image is only displayed while waiting to enter the
bootmenu.  There's some info on it here:
  https://www.seabios.org/Runtime_config#Bootsplash_images

> On the ASRock E350M1 it takes ten seconds to detect the connected
> spinning hard disk, and the bootsplash is not displayed during that
> time. Would it make sense to already show the bootsplash then?

I think setting "etc/threads" to 2 should obtain that behavior.

-Kevin



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