Re: bootsplash ramble
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:22:30PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> 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?
Well, I do think you need to patch your kernel and take a bit more
pains. See this, it has worked for me earlier:
http://www.oreilly.com/pub/h/3124
HTH.
Kumar
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Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
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