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+# Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+# Eblit with information/warnings for Cobalt users.
+#
+# If you need to add whitespace for formatting in 'einfo', 'ewarn', or 'eerror', use
+# \040 for a space instead of the standard space. These functions will strip
+# redundant white space.
+
+show_cobalt_info() {
+ echo -e ""
+ einfo "Please keep in mind that the 2.6 kernel will NOT boot on Cobalt"
+ einfo "systems that are still using the old Cobalt bootloader. In"
+ einfo "order to boot a 2.6 kernel on Cobalt systems, you must be using"
+ einfo "the CoLo bootloader, which does not have the kernel"
+ einfo "size limitation that the older bootloader has. If you want"
+ einfo "to use the newer bootloader, make sure you have sys-boot/colo"
+ einfo "installed and setup."
+ echo -e ""
+}