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Originally Posted by ixtab
You could create an init script which periodically reads the output of dmesg and/or showlog, reformats it and uses eips to draw it on the screen. You'll still need to get rid of the original boot screen, but that's (probably) just disabling a few lines in other init files.
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You need to filter what you send to eips to remove characters that make it fail. One of my published scripts did that (an early attempt at a simple, text-only onscreen terminal).
For early boot messages, you would need to add your code to the initial ramdisk in the kernel partition.