hi ya "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ( sorry couldnt resist )
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, [UTF-8] ÃâÃ¤Ä vÃÑÅ©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
