On 5/22/05, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 04:32:12PM +0300, Eddy Petrisor wrote: > > On 5/20/05, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. hmm, I don't know where I got that idea; I looked over the wiki for usplash some time ago, and understood that, but there was a step there that said something about lilo/grub fading to black and I asumed (don't know why) that will have to do with the bootloader, too...
> There's no getting around hacking the bootloader for this. in that case, I hope somebody does this really soon for yaboot :-) -- Regards, EddyP
