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Re: bootsplash ramble



Mark Grieveson schrieb:
> 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?

Install splashy. No kernel patching necessary.

Michael


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