Adding a bootsplash

Oxyd · 12-20-2003, 10:51 AM

I'm on Mandrake 9.1 and it has a bootsplash support. However I somehow disabled (of course, that I don't know how

- now - I'm logging my actions) the bootsplash (I didn't like the picture). Now, I've found a better one, but I can't get it going. I've done all the actions I've found somewhere on the internet, but it doesn't help me. While booting I get this line: "Looking for splash picture... No good signature found" - maybe that's my problem... But I don't know what does it mean!?!

System:
Mandrake 9.1
Kernel - 2.4.21

Oxyd.

320mb · 12-20-2003, 11:51 AM

In Slackware the pic goes in.......
/home/(user)/.kde/share/apps/ksplash/pics

system wide the pic is here.......

/opt/kde/share/apps/ksplash/pics

hope it helps

Oxyd · 12-20-2003, 02:00 PM

Hm... no such direcotories in my system... strange...

But - Somehow (again...!) I've forced the kernel to load it up. However it still doesn't display the bootsplash...

Part of 'dmesg':

Code:

vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd8000000, mapped to 0xca800000, size 65536k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=67
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:573a
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 13683 bytes).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
vga16fb: initializing
vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
fb1: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device

Oxyd

mikshaw · 12-20-2003, 04:00 PM

No idea if this helps, but in SuSE, the bootsplash images are in /etc/bootsplash, with related files
/proc/splash
/sbin/bootanim
/sbin/splash

So far i've been able to modify the image used in tty1, but not the bootloader graphic, so I'm thinking there may be other relevant files.
I also need to run mk_initrd in order to update any changes, but not sure if that's necessary with Mandrake

Oxyd · 12-21-2003, 08:22 AM

Yeah - I've all theese files in those directories... But - it doesn't work either - I can't understand it... :-(. There's probably some mistake in my settings...

Oxyd.

coolamit78 · 12-22-2003, 07:57 AM

Well...lets hope I can offer some assistance to u...

In RedHat, I think the /usr directory somewhere has a sub-directory called splash wherein the boot-up image file is located.

you can also check your /boot/grub/ directory for the name of the splashimage.

I dont remember the exact path but in RedHat its something like
/usr/share/splash or
/usr/share/pixmaps/splash....

just locate where splash directory is located...

you may use the command

locate splash

or

find / -name splash

I hope either of these commands will give u clues about the location of the image file...

Regards,

amit