Hide BIOS / Disable Verbose

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gaetano
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Hide BIOS / Disable Verbose

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I've tried the menu=on option with splash and it doesn't work. I would prefer to wait on a black screen than to have text (I'm loading it from a sort-of "Classic Startup").
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Re: Hide BIOS / Disable Verbose

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Hi,

I know of no way to hide the openbios screen.
If you boot OSX as guest, and you have -prom-env "boot-args=-v" in your command line, you can remove that. OSX boot will then show the normal grey apple logo during boot.

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Re: Hide BIOS / Disable Verbose

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I have a script I run that hides the entire application until OpenBIOS has a chance to complete, and it makes the window visible and brings it to the front after about 10 seconds. I could probably improve it to bring the window to the front, visible, when it resizes but I haven't spent the time to get this working yet.
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Re: Hide BIOS / Disable Verbose

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I've tried enabling bootsplash and it doesn't work either (even when using an 800x600 JPG image, no errors shown). Maybe the bin file could be recompiled? But I don't know if the source files of the bios are included on the distribution package I have (screamer enabled; haven't used the screamer+hardfloat yet).
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Re: Hide BIOS / Disable Verbose

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Hi,

I think the bootsplash options relate to the seabios bootrom, not the openbios used to boot the ppc machines.
The source files are at https://github.com/openbios/openbios

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