I also seem to remember a kernal awhile ago that only showed the custom logo while booting (i.e. never showed the empeg/rio logo).

I only remember that the small logo on bootup can be changed with the setvisual tool Frank van Gestel has cooked up a while ago. It's on his site.

Edwin de Vaan
mk2 rev.7 # 080000263 (queue 1232) 6+20Gb blue/red