Is there a walkthrough in how to change the bootsplash in lilo with a bitmap that ive created?
that is how to change message-graphic or how to do the image=bitmap way

Ive googled but i didnt find anything that i could understand !
Thanks in advance

Yeah, do a search here as I discussed this at length with someone a few weeks ago.

i did as in your arcticle (i think so) but i get this:
Unrecognized token "bmp-table-48,15,1,12" at or above line 15 in file '/etc/lilo.conf'
here is my lilo.conf# File generated by DrakX/drakboot
# WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file
default="windows"
boot="/dev/hda"
map=/boot/map
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout="30"
#message=/boot/message
#menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
install=bmp
bitmapli=/boot/pasa.bmp
bmp-table-48,15,1,12
bmp-colors=250,,255,,
bmp-timer=300p,184p,250,,

image="/boot/vmlinuz"
label="linux"
root="/dev/hda6"
initrd="/boot/initrd.img"
append="resume=/dev/hda7 splash=silent"
vga=788
read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/hda6
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="resume=/dev/hda7"
read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hda6
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe resume=/dev/hda7"
read-only

other=/dev/hda1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hda

any ideas?

The "BMPTABLE" devices the "box" in which the various OS choices are permitted to be displayed.

The documentation is VERY unclear on this, and when I first looked at an example the coordinates were given in the hundreds...

I could never make this work and I kept at it using different values.

What I found to work in my case were sortof "cursor" co-ordinates...

Think of the screen as XX by YY characters in size.

The bmptable permits you to specify them...

Ok but what happens when you have a smaller or larger CHARACTER screen resolution defined?

Say the coordinates started at 132X by 10Y....

That would be fine for a console screen of 180 characters by 80 characters... but what about a 640x480 mode display...

Opps it doesn't fit as each character is say 10-12 pixels high... those same coordinates would be off the screen with a 640x480 vesa mode.

Get it?

You are trying to match a BITMAP coordinate system to a character based coordinate system...

That for me, was the big discovery that permitted me to place the "box" anywhere I wanted.

It's confusing because usually you address cursor coordinates directly, not in this crazy way...

On the other hand it makes sense because the system must boot up into a vesa graphics mode (using the video card's capabilities) but display TEXT...

I finally did it!!!
install=bmp
bitmap=/boot/image.bmp
bmp-table=48,15,1,12
bmp-colors=250,,255,,
bmp-timer=300p,184p,250,,
Previously ive made a typographic error.Anyway Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also ive found usefull this
http://home.tele2.fr/solsTiCe/README.bitmaps

Yes that's a much better set of directions than what I was working with...

At least I got the character addressing right....

Anyway its easier using the lilo -E bitmap.bmp and then at lilo.conf bitmap=/boot/bitmap.bmp for setting the coordinates easier.The .dat file must be on the same folder
Thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!!!