Here is a link to a site that has instructions on creating an animated LILO
boot menu:
http://www.gamers.org/~quinet/lilo/index.html

Yes, I know it is just eye candy, but so is Gnome, KDE, etc. ;)

Gene

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Duston, Hal
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 12:52 PM
> To: Kclug
> Subject: RE: Linux graphical boot menu
>
>
> Brian Densmore [mailto:DensmoreB@ctbsonline.com] wrote:
> >
> > Simple.
> > Mandrake and RedHat launch X. Slackware doesn't.
> > It's part of the "bootdisk" and init process.
>
> Uhm, he's talking about the boot process, not the
> install process.  I'm not sure how you would launch
> X before a kernel is even loaded.  Slackware is
> perfectly capable of launching X.  It just doesn't
> _default_ to launching X.  You definitely can't
> load X before you have booted the kernel though.
>
> Hal
>
>