On August 31, 2005 04:02 am, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 30 August 2005 16:31, bshlists wrote: > > On August 30, 2005 10:51 am, Holly Bostick wrote: > > > Afaik, it's not a change to a config file, it's a change in the way you > > > generate the initramfs. > > > > > > If you compile it into the kernel (instructions on the Wiki; see How-to > > > fbsplash), it will start up at the very start. > > > > > > If you load it as a separate initrd, you have to wait for the > > > framebuffer to initialize before the splash can start (which takes a > > > short while). > > > > > > Naturally, if you change from loading an initrd to compiling the initrd > > > into the kernel, you do have to change a config file (grub.conf, to > > > remove the initrd= line, since you no longer have one), but changing > > > the file alone won't make any difference if you haven't changed the way > > > you create the initrd in the first place. > > > > > > > > > HTH, > > > > Holly > > > > Okay. The method I used was by genkernel and the initramfs I'm using was > > to get the autodetection feature. If I change this don't lose that > > ability or does it matter? > > "genkernel --menuconfig --gensplash=yourtheme --gensplash-res=1024x768 all" > or whatever resolution you want. You can use the initramfs as usual. > > Uwe >
Thanks for the suggestion. After reading Holly's suggestion I did more reading and found what you just posted. What seemed to mess my attempts up was that I had to delete the old initramfs before running the above command or I would just get the same results. Once that was sorted you everything was good. :-) -- DWW -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
