In article
<Pine.NEB.4.30.0102181411270.16427-100000@rangerover.kasbah>,
   Reinoud Zandijk <imago@kabel065011.kabel.utwente.nl> wrote:
> > AFAIR it displays some lovely stripes on screen, the last one being white,
> > perhaps it's just picking it up from that?

> Nope that are just memcpy's to the screen .... nothing to do with the vidc
> code or palette.... hmm... maybe an uninitialised variable ? i'll have a
> second look :)

The stripes are memsets() to the screen memory. They tell you how far
booting has progressed after interrupts have been disabled.

Dave Daniels