On 17 August 2005 18:22, John Dangler wrote: > Uwe~ > Yes, please share! I'd be interested to see how this goes together
Alright, it took me less time than I thought. ;-) Here it goes: 1. Cd to /etc/splash. Create a subdirectory with the name of your theme. That's "sysex" in my case because that's the name of my company for which I have done it (just to squash any snide remarks before the come my way: It's SysEx rather than SySex). Inside that subdirectory, you create another one by the name "images". 2. Use an existing images or create one with your favourite program for that. I used an existing one and edited with The Gimp. Actually, you need two matching ones, one for the "silent" screen, one for the "verbose" screen. The silent one is for the splash screen showing a progress bar and hiding all boot-up messages. The verbose one is for hitting "F2" during the boot process and for the virtual text consoles. At this stage, you have to decide which resolution you can use with your video card. I only use 1024x758, so I skip all the other resolutions. If you want all of them (like in emergence you have to create them all but you don't need to. Resize the images in The Gimp to 1024x768 (or whatever resolution you want and can use) and save them as "silent-1024x768.jpg" and "verbose-1024x768.jpg". Copy them over to /boot/grub/. 3. Create a file with this content: --- start file --- # Copyright 2004 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # # ***************************************************************************** # Gentoo-Emergence - a sample gensplash theme, bootsplash compatibility mode # This file should be placed in /etc/splash/emergence/ # ***************************************************************************** bgcolor=0 tx=25 ty=28 tw=979 th=728 text_x=204 text_y=544 text_size=26 text_color=0xeef4ff pic=/etc/splash/sysex/images/verbose-1024x768.jpg silentpic=/etc/splash/sysex/images/silent-1024x768.jpg #pic256=/etc/splash/emergence/images/verbose-1024x768-240.png #silentpic256=/etc/splash/emergence/images/silent-1024x768-256.png box silent noover 204 582 820 612 #04045498 box silent inter 204 583 204 611 #ffff00 #ffff00 #526bb0 #526bb0 box silent 204 583 820 611 #ffffff #ffffff #526bb0 #526bb0 box silent 204 582 820 582 #313234 box silent 204 612 820 612 #eef4ff box silent 204 582 204 612 #313234 box silent 820 582 820 612 #eef4ff box noover 20 20 1004 750 #04045498 --- end file --- Save it to /etc/splash/sysex/1024x768.cfg. Replace any occurrence fo "sysex" by the name you call your theme. 4. Create another matching image with very few colours. Save it as sysex.jpg. If you haven't emerge ImageMagick yet do it now. Use "convert -colors 16 -depth 8 sysex.jpg sysex.xpm". Gnuzip "sysex.xpm" (gzip sysex.xpm) and copy "sysex.xpm.gz" to /boot/grub/". 5. Assuming your /usr/src/linux points to your current kernel sources, do a "genkernel --menu-config --gensplash=sysex --gensplash-res=1024x768 all". Replace "sysex" by your theme name and "1024x768" by your resolution. When the kernel configuration comes up, go to "Device Drivers" --> "Graphics Support". Enable "VESA VGA Graphics Support", and in there also "vesafb-tng". Also enable "Support for framebuffer splash". Do whatever else configuration you need. Let everything build. 6. This should generate "/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6" and /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6", or whatever other kernel you are using. If not so, well, you made a mistake somewhere along the line. (or I mistyped something ;-) 7. Create an entry in your /boot/grub/grub.conf like this: --- start config file ---- default 0 timeout 10 splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/sysex.xpm.gz title= NOS - The Namibian Office Solution by SysEx (Pty) Ltd. root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 udev quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1024x768-16 splash=silent,theme:sysex initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 --- end config file --- Obviously, you have to edit everything "sysex" and the harddisk to fit your system. Also the kenel version. If your boot partition is on SCSI you probably also have to add the option "doscsi" to the kernel options. Compared to the recommended HOWTO somewhere on Gentoo, this gives you a splash screen that kicks in far earlier and does hardware recognition far superior. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
