New boot animation for 12.1.0

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Richard Smith <richard at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>> My point was if you hit escape once it stops you can see where the
>> boot is stopping so to find out what is causing the problem.
>
> He reported that doesn't work.
>
>>> pause at the ok prompt, but BEFORE the boot process stalls. [Once booting
>>> has paused at the single dot, pressing escape does nothing.]
>
> I suspect what may be happening is that the screen is not getting
> unfrozen.  So even though the system is running you won't ever see
> anything and pressing escape won't help.

Hitting escape on at least one of the XO-1/1.5/1.75 worked for me in
my testing, I don't remember exactly which one(s) it was but it was
certainly working in base testing (ie no modifications, no extra HW).

Peter