lilo boot image

mi6 · 12-10-2003, 05:53 PM

I got tired of seeing my red background when I boot my computer, so I stole some images (propaganda) off of the slackware.com website and made one.

If anyone is interested you can download it here http://users.adelphia.net/~lswysocki/downloads/lilo.bmp

I am definitely not a graphics guy so the file is rather large compared to others I have seen. If someone knows how to fix this let me know.

If you need help installing see /usr/doc/lilo*/README.bitmaps and spend some time reading that.

Here is my lilo.dat

Code:

#
# generated companion file to:
#
bitmap = /boot/lilo.bmp
bmp-table = 59,5;1,19,16,4
bmp-colors = 15,,0;5,,15
bmp-timer = 515p,437p;0,,

shaheen · 12-11-2003, 07:42 AM

uite nice , i will definitely look to it .. shd be interesting how u have planned it out .. once did that in college life ..
all the best .. will reply u back
Thanks
Shaheen

mi6 · 12-11-2003, 10:50 AM

thanks!

If you change any of the text colors, send me your .dat file so I can try them out as well. I am not sure if I like the green I am presently using.

Also if anyone knows a way to capture the screen at boot time I would appreciate it.

bingbang · 01-29-2004, 06:56 AM

Hi! Can you tell me how to modify the color depth to 16? I tryed with kpaint but it refused to work, and I don't know how to use gimp.
Thanks

P.S Nice image

mi6 · 01-29-2004, 07:00 PM

sorry, I am not a gimp user either. I did the bitmap in photoshop

carboncopy · 01-29-2004, 11:31 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by mi6

Also if anyone knows a way to capture the screen at boot time I would appreciate it.

Digital Camera?

dopefish · 01-29-2004, 11:37 PM

mi6 if you like nice graphical boot loaders you should try animated lilo screens

http://members.optusnet.com.au/rkelsen/lilo.html
http://www.gamers.org/%7Equinet/lilo/

Pwnz3r · 03-13-2004, 11:53 PM

All you have to do in the GIMP is in the image's window, go to Image -> Mode -> Idexed and change the color amount to 16. Here are some LILO screens that I have made.

http://home.columbus.rr.com/rayuki/i...ens/linuxX.bmp
http://home.columbus.rr.com/rayuki/i...ux-passion.bmp

I use the LinuxX one because it's shway.

iotc247 · 04-29-2004, 04:10 PM

How do i install the graphical boot thing from gamers.org if slack doesnt come with mkbootmsg?

dopefish · 04-30-2004, 09:14 PM

http://members.optusnet.com.au/rkelsen/lilo.html
follow the instructions on this site