Hi, I see both concepts as not perfect: bootsplash or rhgb. Bootsplash is based on the framebuffer and needs kernel patches, that will never go into the official kernel. And RHGB (RedHat Graphical Boot) depends on an X Server, that is not available early in the boot process. So my question was: Wouldn't it be easy to write a program, that looks like rhgb, but is based on the framebuffer device. Compiled statically it should even be small enough to fit on an initrd. The communication should be done by a pipe, so you can simply echo "0 Starting" > ... echo "10 Setting hostname" > ... echo "30 Starting networking" > ... echo "100 Ready" > ... echo "101" > ... More than 100% or any keypress will close the graphical boot screen. There is a good screenshot of rhgb available, which I used to positions the elements: http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/173/19.gif I've attached my simple implementation. It depends on the three graphics (*.png) and an monospace 12 "font.ttf". Bye, Toby
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