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 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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