Re: Yaboot - does yaboot support splash?
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 04:32:12PM +0300, Eddy Petrisor wrote:
> On 5/20/05, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:52:26PM -0700, Brian Benson wrote:
> > > I've used both bootsplash and gensplash on my ibook. Yaboot just
> > > specifies the initrd file that contains the images. It's all in the
> > > docs.
> >
> > But neither is what Eddy's asking about (at least as far as I can gather
> > from IRC conversation). I believe the question was about displaying an
> > image at the yaboot prompt itself, which would need to be implemented in
> > yaboot itself and isn't.
>
> Yes, this is correct.
> Maybe ubuntu's uslpash will make this... when is done (Colin do you
> happen to know anything about this :-) ?
usplash won't do bootloader splash images either. It's intended to fill
the same rôle as bootsplash/gensplash, except in userspace.
There's no getting around hacking the bootloader for this.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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