bootsplash ramble
I tried setting up bootsplash, on my Etch box, and have failed
miserably. I installed it, and messed around with
the /boot/grub/menu.lst file, adding "vga=791 splash=silent" to the
kernel line. It made the print smaller, but did not give me a nifty
bootsplash. I then attempted to recompile my kernel, as instructed (a
hell of a thing to have to do just to get a bootsplash, but, well,
since I had started.....)
Anyway, first using menuconfig, and then xconfig, I was unable to find
any entry for "Console drivers". I did find some framebuffer stuff,
but nothing about "Use splash screen instead of boot logo", as I was
instructed to turn on. I did find something about turning on a penguin
during bootup (the "boot logo", maybe?). I checked that, just so that
I could say to myself, "Well, at least I did SOMETHING". Now, hours
later, I'm still waiting for the revised kernel to finish its stuff,
via the command fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-custom
kernel_image kernel_headers.
Yikes. Has anyone else succeeded with bootsplash?
Mark
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