[Trac #519] Change Linux startup to use black on white

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#519: Change Linux startup to use black on white
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 Reporter:  wmb at firmworks.com  |        Owner:  marcelo
     Type:  defect             |       Status:  new    
 Priority:  normal             |    Milestone:  BTest-2
Component:  kernel             |   Resolution:         
 Keywords:                     |  
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Comment (by JordanCrouse):

 I played with the console a bit this afternoon - I tried to figure out a
 sane way to specify the desired color scheme on the kernel command line,
 but all the solutions were way too ugly to try to push to Linus.  But I
 think there is hope - if we use usplash, then all we need to do is make
 sure that the kernel doesn't display anything but the blank screen (which
 is easy enough to do - kill the logo and not setup console=tty0).  Then,
 in the initscripts before anything is output to the screen, all we need to
 do is:
 {{{
 # Foreground black
 printf "\033[30m" > /dev/ttyX
 # Background white
 printf "\033[47m" > /dev/ttyX
 # Save the defaults
 printf "\033[8]" > /dev/ttyX
 }}}
 Where X is every vt we're planing on supporting.  Then, we clear the
 screen, (which mingetty can do for us), and we're golden.  This is much
 easier then trying to patch the kernel to do something it really doesn't
 want to do.

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