I have patched bootsplash patch to kernel-2.6.11.10 and compiled the kernel?How?

I was pretty successful in getting this to work (after some trial & error of course) with the following links to guide me along and use as reference. Hopefully they can be of some help to you also.

Read these pages:

http://www.bootsplash.org/
Graphic boot with bootsplash and progress bar in Debian a lil outdated but may still work.
Bootsplash mailing-list if you need more help
http://www.bootsplash.de/
The following two gentoo threads can provide some good reference material:
The Gentoo Framebuffer, Bootsplash & Grubsplash How-To
Gentoo Framebuffer, Bootsplash & Grubsplash - SUPPORT

I've been looking for a newer bootsplash patch for ages. 10q OmegaBlac for the links (especially bootsplash.de) Can't wait to get home and stuff the 2.6.12 patch in my kernel. Wish me luck (gentoo-ck3 with libata-dev1 patch)

Hi, after reading this and the bootsplash.de instructions i am more than ready to put that boot splash in my debain SID. At one point it seems initrd is required, when I run mkinitrd it does nothing. Can anyone tell me why this might be. I made my kernel with make-kpkg kernel_image
--thanks

This is a good bootsplash resource for Debian: DebBlue.

Hi, try using "dpkg-reconfigure bootsplash" and then when it asks you to choose an initrd if you select none it will make one for you.

Hello there! I am in the middle, or so I think at least, of setting up my bootsplash kerenl but I am running into a bit of a problem:

I am working from one of the sites provided: http://debblue.debian.net/faq.php#faq3

This is where I am at:

cd /usr/src
tar -jxvf kernel-source-2.6.6.bz2
cd kernel-source-2.6.6
cp /boot/config-2.6.6-1-686 .config
../kernel-patches/all/apply/bootsplash
cp /boot/config-2.6.6-1 .config

linuxbox:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8# cp /boot/config-2.6.8-2-386 .config ../kernel-patches/all/apply/bootsplash
cp: copying multiple files, but last argument `../kernel-patches/all/apply/bootsplash' is not a directory
Try `cp --help' for more information.

Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?

Thanks
Eric.

just add vga=791 to your kernel line in grub.conf, then get splashy from debian experimental. simple as that. No kernel module.

Just to make sure:

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-386
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 root=/dev/hda2 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386

should be changed to:

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-386
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=791
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386

Is that it? How would I go about selecting a splash image then?

Thanks for the help,
Eric.

here are the themes:
http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/themes/

The included readme tells how to install them. You can make your own pretty easily too.

Sorry, though still having a bit of a problem:

I should note that I am working off of the http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/#FAQ
site, the "During boot I get the error: vesafb: probe failed ....."

eric@linuxbox:~$ dmesg | grep fb
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbbbf, last bus=1
vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6

Alright, so the problem is the frame buffer. The battle plain is to copy the vesafb.ko located in /kernel/drivers/video -> /initrd replacing the current vesafb.ko file. To accomplish this I will be entering:

cp /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/vesafb.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/initrd/vesafb.ko
rm /lib/modules/`uname -r`/initrd/vesafb.ko

Does this look right to you?

Thanks,
Eric

Sure, I can help you out here.
First do the copy .config command:
If you haven't created a symlink to the kernel-source,
you need to do so now:

Then you need to apply the kernel patch w/next command.
Afterwards, just carry on with the remainder of the How-To.

And read the Jazz Up Your Debian System Boot.

Hello there Xian,

Thanks for helping, but I am sorry to say that I am still a bit confused, well, actually, I am just lost...

I was doing well, or so I think, until the last entry:

linuxbox:/home/eric# cp /boot/config-2.6.8-2-386 .config
linuxbox:/home/eric# cd /usr/src/
linuxbox:/usr/src# ln -s kernel-source-2.6.8-2 linux
linuxbox:/usr/src# cd /usr/src/kernel-patches/diffs/bootsplash
linuxbox:/usr/src/kernel-patches/diffs/bootsplash# gzip -d bootsplash-3.1.4-sp3- 2.6.8.1.diff.gz
linuxbox:/usr/src/kernel-patches/diffs/bootsplash# cd /usr/src/linux
bash: cd: /usr/src/linux: No such file or directory
linuxbox:/usr/src/kernel-patches/diffs/bootsplash# patch -p1 < /usr/src/kernel-p atches/diffs/bootsplash/bootsplash-3.1.4-sp3-2.6.8.1.diff
can't find file to patch at input line 4
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -urN linux-2.6.8.1/drivers/char/keyboard.c linux-2.6.8.1-bootsplash/driver s/char/keyboard.c
|--- linux-2.6.8.1/drivers/char/keyboard.c 2004-08-14 12:56:26.000000000 +0 200
|+++ linux-2.6.8.1-bootsplash/drivers/char/keyboard.c 2004-08-15 10:36:26.0000 00000 +0200
--------------------------
File to patch:

Again, thanks for helping.
Eric.

Most likely your kernel-source file is named differently from kernel-source-2.6.8-2. Check the /usr/src directory on your system. I'd image its actual name is probably kernel-source-2.6.8. So, you need to remove that symlink and then create a new one to the proper folder.

Now continue on with patching the kernel.

Hay there Xian, thanks for sticking around to help, this is where I am at now:

linuxbox:/usr/src/linux# patch -p1 < /usr/src/kernel-patches/diffs/bootsplash/3.1.4-sp3-2.6.8.1.diff
bash: /usr/src/kernel-patches/diffs/bootsplash/3.1.4-sp3-2.6.8.1.diff: No such file or directory
linuxbox:/usr/src/linux# ls /usr/src/kernel-patches/diffs/bootsplash/
bootsplash-3.0.7-2.4.18-vanilla.diff.gz bootsplash-3.1.4-2.6.4-r3.diff.gz
bootsplash-3.0.7-2.4.20-vanilla.diff.gz bootsplash-3.1.4-2.6.5.diff.gz
bootsplash-3.0.7-2.4.22-vanilla.diff.gz bootsplash-3.1.4-2.6.6.diff.gz
bootsplash-3.0.7-2.4.23.diff.gz bootsplash-3.1.4-2.6.7-r2.diff.gz
bootsplash-3.0.7-2.4.24-vanilla.diff.gz bootsplash-3.1.4-sp3-2.6.8.1.diff
bootsplash-3.1.3-2.6.0-test9.diff.gz bootsplash-3.1.4-sp3-2.6.9-rc4.diff.gz
bootsplash-3.1.4-2.6.10.diff.gz bootsplash-3.1.6-2.6.11.diff.gz
bootsplash-3.1.4-2.6.1.diff.gz bootsplash-3.1.6-2.6.12.diff.gz
bootsplash-3.1.4-2.6.2.diff.gz drivers
bootsplash-3.1.4-2.6.3.diff.gz
linuxbox:/usr/src/linux#

I tried to remove everything and start anew, though still no luck. I am using kernel 2.6.8-2-686.
I am not sure as to the error: "No such file or directory," I can list the contents of the folder and the file is there.

Any suggestion or ideas are much appreciated
Eric.