using bootsplash from liveCD

WizzleyPete · n00b Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 54

Hey everyone. I really like the Gentoo Linux startup splash screen with the progress bar, and was wondering how exactly I could copy that from the CD. I emerged gs-sources and enabled bootsplash in the kernel, so I only need to know what initrd file on the CD will provide me with the bootsplash images. Thanks in advance.

James

aardvark · Guru Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 576

Me too!! I just love that boot cd boosplash with boot progress indicator, for all those times I don't need to know that my processes are all started [OK]

I got the inird.1024 from the CD (mounted in a running gentoo: /isolinux/initrd.1024) already, but with only that and the kernel option "splash=silent" I still don't get a progress bar.

Anyone on this?

stig · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2003 10:18 pm Post subject:

Me too! That splashscreen was so cool

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darkcoder · Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 5:50 am Post subject:

I got it working. These are the steps you need:

1) emerge baselayout no greater than 1.8.6.9 (still not supported by the patch). I personally use 1.8.6.9.
2) emerge bootsplash if it is not in your sistem.
3) download the bootsplash progress bar patch from here: http://www.aichler.net/gentoo/bootsplash/downloads.html
4) get the cd bootsplash. It's /isolinux/initrd.1024. And save it in /boot.
5) Modify grub.conf with:

WizzleyPete · n00b Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 54

Cool

Will give it a try. Thank you.

syscrash · Guru Joined: 14 Apr 2003 Posts: 541

Thanks dark, that works wonderfully. Something to note is that it did NOT work with gentoo-sources 2.4.20-r5 and vanilla-sources 2.4.21. It DID work with gaming-sources.

WizzleyPete · n00b Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 54

It won't work for me

Blurpy · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 11:30 am Post subject:

The initrd from the iso didn't work for me, so I made my own by using the config files and images from /etc/bootsplash/gentoo on the cd. But the progressbar is on the wrong place, and the font is very ugly.
This is what I got, and this is what it looks like on the cd.

Does anyone know how to fix it? I've tried looking at the config file, but don't know what to change.

jbla00 · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 25

There are some problems with the size og the frame buffer in the gentoo-sources 2.4.20-r5, due to an other patch.

Take a look at:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=47612&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=25

This should help with the gentoo-sources
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Blurpy · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 3:37 pm Post subject:

I found out how to move the progressbar. I had to change several things. This is from /etc/bootsplash/gentoo/config/bootsplash-1024x768.cfg

The new:

darkcoder · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 8:53 pm Post subject:

I got everything, except for the text message. Apparently is something within my system since the message from other bootsplash are gone too. But I don't matter much for it either. If someone can fix it for me, tell me.

And where on the cd are those files, I only find the ones that bootsplash installed (console background).

And for the record, I use pfeifer-sources 2.4.21-pre4
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WizzleyPete · n00b Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 54

It should be here:

/mnt/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.1024

I tried copying initrd* rather than just the one file to my /boot partition, and it's worked just fine for me. I don't know if you need all of them or not, but it doesn't hurt to copy them over. Hope this helps. For the record, I did eventually get it to work

I thought the overlapping text on the bootup splash from the first CD was annoying since it doesn't work quite the way it did on the CD, so I just edited /etc/conf.d/bootsplash.conf and got rid of the message, so now it boots up without the text on the splash screen/progress bar.

James

Azaghal · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 103

works like a charm

Had a few troubles at first, took me hours, and eventually looking at the src to find out that it's (with it's I mean bootsplash as a whole, not this patch) very picky about 'markers', which is why it would crash on my custom theme. Simply loaded it into gimp and saved it again with touching a few settings, and problem fixed.

darkcoder · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 2:54 am Post subject:

anyone was able to make it work under baselayout-1.8.6.10?
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micha · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2002 Posts: 24 Location: Germany

Hi,

Blurpy · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 4:46 pm Post subject:

The Dark · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 5:07 pm Post subject:

darkcoder · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 6:37 pm Post subject:

maybe you are not running unstable, so try this:

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge bootsplash
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The Dark · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 7:04 pm Post subject:

Blurpy · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 9:10 am Post subject:

pazz · Apprentice Joined: 01 Dec 2002 Posts: 283

Hi!
i was wondering if it is possible to use this progress bar thing under a nvidia card and kernel 2.6

i never used framebuffers for this pc because it seems to have trouble switching back from X to the console (it simply doesn't reply anymore)

well, but it semms a verry nice thing to me this bar...

here's what i did:

compiled framebuffer support for riva cards (seems to work)
compiled in support for console-fb, some fonts and boot-logo support
emerged bootsplash and moved this initrd.1024 file as darkcoder said

then i ran my kernel using: kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda5 hdc=ide-scsi video=mtrr,vesa:1024x768 vga=0x314 splash=silent theme=gentoo initrd=/initrd.1024

and what came out was a huge margin around a verry small but high resulutioned, normal boot-output...

any comments?
thx
pazz

Blurpy · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 11:58 am Post subject:

pazz · Apprentice Joined: 01 Dec 2002 Posts: 283

well, fine

but it's nice to be sure that i't really won't work and that it's not me that is simply too dumb for it *g
thanx pazz

The Dark · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 6:10 pm Post subject:

zuowei · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 12:14 pm Post subject: