diff -p -up partimage-0.6.7/src/client/gui_text.cpp.splash partimage-0.6.7/src/client/gui_text.cpp
--- partimage-0.6.7/src/client/gui_text.cpp.splash	2008-11-05 13:51:58.000000000 +0100
+++ partimage-0.6.7/src/client/gui_text.cpp	2008-11-05 13:51:58.000000000 +0100
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <errno.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <termio.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
 
 #define __STDC_FORMAT_MACROS
 #include <inttypes.h>
@@ -784,6 +789,15 @@ void CRestoringWindow::showStats(const t
   char szTemp2[1024];
   char szTemp3[1024];
 
+  char szTempSplash[1024];
+  char szTempSilent[256];
+  char c=0;
+  int ref=65534/100;
+  struct termios oldT, newT;
+  int notify;
+  int silent;
+  FILE *splash;
+  
   time_t timeElapsed, timeRemaining;
   QWORD qwBytesPerMin;
   float fMinElapsed;
@@ -844,6 +858,50 @@ void CRestoringWindow::showStats(const t
       }
     }
 
+  /* bootsplash hack */
+
+  splash = fopen("/proc/splash","r+");
+  if (splash != NULL) {
+    silent = 1;
+    if (fgets(szTempSilent, 255, splash)) {
+      rewind(splash);
+      if (strstr(szTempSilent, "silent") == NULL)
+	silent = 0;
+    }
+
+    notify = open("/tmp/partimage.tmp", O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_WRONLY, 0644);
+    if (notify) {
+      if (silent) {
+        sprintf(szTempSplash, "%d\n", (int)qwPercent * ref);
+        write(notify, szTempSplash, strlen(szTempSplash));
+      } else {
+        write(notify, "x\n", 2);
+      }
+      close(notify);
+    }
+
+    if (!silent) {
+      // nonblocking read -- use that instead of select() because we're
+      // also putting the terminal in noncanonical mode
+
+      fcntl(0, F_SETFL, fcntl(0, F_GETFL) | O_NONBLOCK);
+      ioctl(0, TCGETS, &oldT); 
+      newT = oldT;
+      newT.c_lflag &= ~(ECHO | ICANON); 
+      ioctl(0, TCSETS, &newT);
+
+      fscanf(stdin, "%c", &c);
+
+      if (c == 'v') {
+        silent = 1;
+        fprintf(splash, "silent\n");
+      }
+
+      ioctl(0, TCSETS, &oldT);
+    }
+    fclose(splash);
+  }
+
   newtRefresh();
   RETURN;
 }
diff -p -up partimage-0.6.7/src/client/main.cpp.splash partimage-0.6.7/src/client/main.cpp
--- partimage-0.6.7/src/client/main.cpp.splash	2008-11-05 13:51:58.000000000 +0100
+++ partimage-0.6.7/src/client/main.cpp	2008-11-05 13:53:37.000000000 +0100
@@ -620,6 +620,16 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
       break;
       
     case OPERATION_RESTORE:
+      FILE *splash;
+      char szTempSplash[1024];
+      splash=fopen("/proc/splash","w");
+      if(splash!=NULL)
+      {
+           sprintf(szTempSplash, "%s\n", "silent");
+           fprintf(splash,"%s",szTempSplash);
+           fclose(splash);
+      }
+
       showDebug(1, "action=RESTORE\n");
       try { restorePartition(szDevice, szImageFile, &options); }
       catch (CExceptions *excep)