enabling bootsplash

johngreenwood · 11-29-2006, 01:03 AM

Hi everyone, I have noticed with a few distros, that when booting they have a picture with a transparent box containing all the usual text seen when booting. I was just wondering, is there a way to achieve this effect with Slackware, and if so, how?

I am using Slackware 11 on the 2.4.33.3 kernel.

Thanks

John

J_W · 11-29-2006, 01:28 AM

>is there a way to achieve this effect with Slackware, and if so, how?

It's possible but you need to recompile kernel and install related utilities.
Please see bootsplash home page in detail.
http://www.bootsplash.org/Welcome_to...world_of_Linux

johngreenwood · 11-29-2006, 01:37 AM

OK, thanks J_W, I have no idea what I am doing, but I'll give it a go.

johngreenwood · 11-29-2006, 02:16 AM

I can't find the patch which applies to the 2.4.33.3 kernel.

Is it possible to download kernel source and apply the patch to it?
And, will everything else be the same as it was before?

I know nothing about compiling kernels, but if I am going to learn, I might as well start now.

J_W · 11-29-2006, 02:55 AM

>I can't find the patch which applies to the 2.4.33.3 kernel.

The patch bootsplash-3.0.7-2.4.30-vanilla.diff works
in case of 2.4.33.3 kernel source.

johngreenwood · 11-29-2006, 01:42 PM

OK, I think I have done everything I need to do, but theres just one thing, where the hell is my new kernel?

johngreenwood · 12-10-2006, 08:16 AM

finally got it sorted

kremers78 · 12-11-2006, 08:26 AM

Did you mean that you got it to work? I had a lot of problems enabling bootsplash with a 2.6.18 and 2.6.19 kernel, so i'm using vesafb now (i've read somewhere that it seems to have a better support for newer kernels)

johngreenwood · 12-14-2006, 03:16 AM

Yes I got it to work, i am sorry but I do not know anything about the 2.6 kernel, so i am afraid I cannot help you. the instructions on bootsplash.org are quite straightforward though, except when you are installing the splash utility (the locations are different to those shown, perhaps they used an older version). Only thing I didn't find on there was how to compile your kernel.

Sorry I couldn't help you, but I hope you get it sorted.

John