Re: grub splash image

[Alvin Oga <aoga@mail.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya "blah-blah-!@#$^"  ( sorry couldnt resist )

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, [UTF-8] Ã?â??äÄ? vÃ?Ñ?Å©Å? wrote:

> hello, i have a small problem, i am trying to add a splash image to my
> bootup, grub and the initial loading before xserver starts, everything
> i have read that refers to this sort of thing mentions a file called
> "grub.conf" but it appears that file is not on my system, the closest
> thing i can find that might be it would be "menu.lst" and i have tried
> adding in the line "splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/myfile.xpm.gz" but
> that seemed to have no effect whats so ever, is there something i am
> doing wrong? i have grub installed on the mbr, please help with this
> problem of mine.

to do splash screeen upon bootup, you will need:
	- a kernel that supports splash screen ( like the debian/suse
	  kernels or make your own w/ the kernel options turned on )
	- the bitmap files for the splash screen

	- make sure splash is enabled in its initrc scripts
	( at least in some distro's )

- modify lilo.conf
	bitmap = /boot/sarge.bmp
	  bmp-table=...
	  bmp-colors=...
	  bmp-timer=...

- or modify /boot/grub/menu.lst

 	title Both-This-Kernel
	   kernel (hd...) ... vmlinuz-2.6.x.y-with-spash

		splash=silent will turn off splash

	- do NOT get menu.lst confused with /etc/grub.conf 

	- some distro's like to mix and match all the options
	into one file ( a bad idea )

c ya
alvin