2005.0 Boot up screen ... [solved]

jlmcp · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 134

This is interesting:

http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20050418-newsletter.xml#doc_chap5

I would be interested to know if anyone got this to work. I tried, and all I get is a blank screen with nothing on it.

Jake

/dev/random · Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 3:15 am Post subject:

Works like a charm. Post your grub.conf and make sure framebuffer and framebuffer splash support are compiled into your kernel.

jlmcp · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 134

Thanks for the reply.

Here is what I did (grub.conf posted at the end):

- emerge splash-themes-livecd ... worked.
- mount /dev/hda1/boot ... worked.
- splash_geninitramfs -v -g /boot/splash-livecd-2005.0-1024x768 -r 1024x768 livecd-2005.0 ... worked.
- Used the kernel generator (make menuconfig) to enable te following:
---| Device Drivers --> Block devices --> RAM disk support --> Initial RAM disk (initrd) support
---| Graphics Support --> Support for frame buffer devices
---| Graphics Support --> VESA VGA graphics support --> VESA driver type (vesafb-tng) --> (1024x768@60) VESA default mode

** Note here: I have a ATI Redeon 7500 in my laptop, but I chose the VESA driver anyway. Any conflict there? Also, this is a dual boot box, and in Windows, the default mode is 1024x768 @ 60 hrz.**

- Added the following lines to my menu.lst:
---| kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.11-gentoor3 root=/dev/hda4 video=vesafb:1024x768-32@60 splash=silent,theme:livecd-2005.0 quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
---| initrd /boot/splash-livecd-2005.0-1024x768

- cd /etc/splash ... worked.
- rm default ... worked.
- ln -s livecd-2005.0 default ... worked.
- rc-update add splash default ... worked.

Then, when I reboot, I get a blank screen with a cursor blinking in the bottom left corner, and eventually I get popped back out to the normal console screen.

Hints?

grub.conf here:

jlmcp · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 134

xaos5 · Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 6:37 am Post subject:

jlmcp · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 134

Sorry to be a pain in the a**, but when you say:

/dev/random · Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 1:16 pm Post subject:

splashutils and bootsplash cannot coexist. splashutils is superior so emerge -C bootsplash should take care of that. As for your kernel options are you using gentoo-sources or vanilla-sources? If you're using vanilla-sources you have to get the patch for splashutils. At the very bottom of Device Driver ----> Graphics Support I have a support for framebuffer splash option with gentoo-sources-2.6.10-r7

Also, using the vesa(-tng) driver is a wise choice. I have an AMD64 and even in 32-bit Gentoo I've noticed that only the vesa driver (not vesa-tng) will work.

xaos5 · Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 7:05 pm Post subject:

/dev/random is right, you need the patch in the kernel and I think the genkernel already has it built into it.

jlmcp · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 134

Alright, I feel like we are getting closer... ;-)

So, first to answer the Q's:

- Sources are Gentoo ... as far as I know. I did *not* use genkernel during my install, but all the src is Gentoo.
- Bootsplash: not curently installed (note the 'N' in the remarks from emerge in last post) so I think we are good there.
- Kernel is 2.6.11-r3.
- Vesa vs. -tng ... easy enough to change.

Ok, now for the tricky stuff...

When I look to the bottom of Device Drivers --> Graphics Support the only two options I see that look related to framebuffering are the following:

jlmcp · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 134

Update...

Switcing from vesa-tng back to vesa didn't seem to make a big change. Hm. Probably missing the kernel patch.

Let me know if you think of something. ;-)

Jake

alechiko · Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 7:32 pm Post subject:

Ive followed the guide to the letter and when i boot up i get a black screen with a white bar flashing on the left side.
Fortunately because nothing else was affected i simply waited until the HDD had stopped spinning and assumed Gentoo had loaded, then logged in as root (even though i couldnt see what i was typing) and started GDM =)

Anyway, here I am now and here is my kernel config: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/l.levy1/links/config-2.6.11-gentoo-r6-fbsplash

and my Grub.conf: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/l.levy1/links/grub.conf

Anyone know whats going on? Im really eager to have this setup right =)

akiru
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jlmcp · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 134

akiru,

Ditto. Your experince mirrors mine. As best as I can tell, there are probably some steps we need to take that the author of the article in the Weekly Update took for granted.

Just trying to track down that mising link. ;-)

Jake

jlmcp · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 134

* SOLVED * SOLVED * SOLVED *

As suspected, there was a rather large assumption made by the author of the article in the Gentoo Weekly that the reader had already setup their system for bootspash/frame-buffer images and console themes. The lights went on when I stumbled across this bit-o-instruction when linked to the the Gentoo frambuffer splash Wiki at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash.

When properly configuring your kernel, follow these instructions (for users of menuconfig) instead:

alechiko · Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 10:53 am Post subject:

atdsm · Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 8:06 pm Post subject: