why?

I've compilied a couple of kernels now, neither of which work. One boots properly but the screen stays completly blank (after a few mins I can SSH into it, etc.), the other one refuses to boot. I've never had much luck with compiling kernels.

I'm still not sure whether this will actually solve the problem, because since I installed the debian boot-icons package (this displays hard disk icons, network icons, etc. at various states of the boot-up process), I can see the icons appear briefly (including tux) but they are very quickly overwritten by the text as it scrolls up the screen. With Debian Woody there was an area at the top of the screen where there would be no text because that's where Tux would be, this is not so on the same system running Sarge.

Maybe I'm just not ment to have a cute Tux logo on my screen :cry:

"why?"

it affect my fonts and hangs my computer.

Well, i showed you where the 'vga= 791' in lilo.conf should go, did you try it?

Could you give me the name of that package? I want to try it here.. :-)

It's simply called "boot-icons" - http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/boot-icons

It's in the unstable distribution so you might need to add something like:
  deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
to /etc/apt/sources.list

Then do
  apt-get update
  apt-get -t unstable install boot-icons

Thank you, uk_dave.

Well, I have the same problem .. I can see his head, and then a little flower, but that's it :-(

I got a friend to help me compile some kernels. I have now tried various 2.4 and 2.6 kernels (using Debian's kernel-source packages) with and without the debian-logo patch and cann't see either Tux or the Debian logo.

Just like littlemidget, all I see each time is Tux's head (occasionly), and then a little flower (from boot-icons package) and that's it.

I know that my bf has a huge debian-logo when his comp boots. I'll ask him later today. Maybe he can help :-)

I upgraded my kernel to 2.6 just to get away from that beer drinking whore for the beer industry

Ok. My bf said that he installed something called debian-logo (?), and fixed something in /etc/inittab/.

Any idea what he did in /etc/inittab?

Well, i've now decided to go back to Debian Woody which I am just finising setting up, but at last I have the Tux logo back!

No, I will ask him when he's online tomorrow... I can't believe you gave up, uk_dave :-P

heh, I know - I'm a defeatist :)

Shame on you for giving up, uk_dave.

I think i just figured it out :-)

To get this cute debian-logo during boot (http://pastebin.com/89797) do this:


Showing the Logo Above Login Prompts (Good for Local Logins)

This method will show the logo above your logins on your virtual terminals, I.E. when you hit ctrl+alt+FX (where FX is F1-F6), and also on tty1 (F1) when you bootup if you like. After you've installed the linuxlogo package, edit the file /etc/inittab. For each terminal you want the logo on, add '-f /etc/issue.linuxlogo' to the getty command (issue.linuxlogo.ascii if you don't want color) so that the settings should look like this:

Original:
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1

Logo:
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -f /etc/issue.linuxlogo 38400 tty1

Showing the Logo as the MOTD After You Login (Good for Remote Logins)

This method is nice for a machine you don't access locally, like a server box that you only login to remotely over your LAN. First, move your old motd out of the way and create a new one:

mv /etc/motd /etc/motd.old
/usr/bin/linux_logo > /etc/motd

Next, edit /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh and change these lines:

uname -a > /etc/motd.tmp
sed 1d /etc/motd >> /etc/motd.tmp
mv /etc/motd.tmp /etc/motd

To:

# uname -a > /etc/motd.tmp
# sed 1d /etc/motd >> /etc/motd.tmp
/usr/bin/linux_logo > /etc/motd.tmp
sed 1,18d /etc/motd >> /etc/motd.tmp
mv /etc/motd.tmp /etc/motd

After you've edited it, run '/etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh' and you should now see the logo on login, as in Figure 1 below. If you want to add a message of the day to the file, just add the message to the end of /etc/motd, don't leave a blank line in between as it will add one on it's own.

Yes, i took this from http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.ph...tid=548&page=1

EDIT: I just rebooted, and yes, i saw the logo (kinda small, i want it to be all over the screen.. and it was only on for a few seconds..).

The logo is small because i have my bootscreenthing in 1024x768-mode, make those numbers smaller - and you have a big logo :-)

I'm happy with the way it is now, I see the logo for a while right before my laptop turns off/reboots :-)