{"id":425,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=425"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"understanding-the-boot-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the boot icons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On x86, BeOS users see a row of icons on the splash screen, lighting up sequentially as the boot sequence commences (though for most users it all happens too quickly to see what&#8217;s going on). Ever wonder what those icons mean?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/455.booticons.gif\" width=459 height=88 alt=\"455.booticons\"><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a quick guide:<br \/>\n<b>Atom:<\/b> Indicates the handoff of the bootloader to the BeOS kernel.<br \/>\n<b>I\/O Card:<\/b> PCI initialization has been completed.<br \/>\n<b>Lightning Bolt:<\/b> This icon appears just before the system enables non-boot CPUs (where non-boot CPUs are defined as the additional processors in a multi-proc system).<br \/>\n<b>Oscilloscope:<\/b> All CPUs have now been enabled.<br \/>\n<b>Disks:<\/b> All boot drivers and modules have been initialized.<br \/>\n<b>Magnifying Glass:<\/b> The boot volume has been mounted.<br \/>\n<b>BeBox:<\/b> The system <code>BootScript<\/code> is being read into memory and its contents executed.<br \/>\nFor a more complete description of this process, see this BMessage article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.be.com\/developers\/bmessage\/issue12.html#ei\">BeOS Splash Screen Icons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On x86, BeOS users see a row of icons on the splash screen, lighting up sequentially as the boot sequence commences (though for most users it all happens too quickly to see what&#8217;s going on). Ever wonder what those icons mean? Here&#8217;s a quick guide: Atom: Indicates the handoff of the bootloader to the BeOS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}