Who says the logos have to come from the "logo" area of flash? Couldn't one just blit an image from disk during the init process?

Yes, that would work, too. The problem is that, in order to do what you're talking about, it would require the developer version of the software, and it would require mucking about at the bash prompt in order to install the necessary files. The beauty of a flash-only version would be that you could flash the custom kernel and the custom logo files into place fairly simply, and it would work with the consumer build.

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Tony Fabris