Boot Splash
 

Hi,
I have SuSE Linux 9.1 Personal Edition.
My splash boot screen does not work (where you see the suse logo and the loading bar)
I tried many things including the splash=silent thing, and none of them works
I do see some error messages when the kernel messages scroll by (at boot time): skipped services in runlevel 5
I really enjoy SuSE Linux but I'd love for the splash boot screen to work

Thanks a lot for your help!

I wish people would use the search feature before answering a questions that been answered many times before! Anyways just run 'mk_initrd' in a terminal window and it will work again.

um....I have tried that already and it doesn't work
I just decided to move to Mandrake instead

This is a quite radical solution to fix a bootsplash... ;)

SUSE 9.2 Boot Splash Screen
 

Hi,

I have just installed Suse 9.2 on a LG-LS50 notebook. Everything works ....... except the very first boot splash screen, this is the screen where you choose whether to load Linux, Windows or Fail Safe etc. An image appears on the screen but is squashed to about 25% on the lefthand side of the screen and is so fuzzy and very faint that it is illegible. You can move the "choice buttons" with the keyboard you can just see the buttons being highlighted, and if you press return the choice is activated. Only if you know in which position the button you want is can you use the screen.

After I choose the "SUSE Linux button" the boot process and the splash screen work perfectly

The same problem occured during the installation, the first screen where you choose the installation method was illegible, after making the first choice evrything worked fine.

I have tried using Grub & Lilo, I have modified all the screen resolutions from 800x600 to 1024 x 768 with 8 bit, 16bit &
24 bit colour, 3d acceleration enable and disabled . It is always the same.

The video card is an Intel 855 GM ( i810 )
Pocessor Celeron 1.5 M

The BIOS is Pheonix, but can not see anything in the set up which would affect the boot splash screen.

The same problem occured when I tried SUSE 9.1 Live CD on this computer.

Any ideas? I can use the computer but it is annoying.


ALAN

This is a strange problem. All I could tell would only affect what happens after the grub screen.

I have googled your problem and all I could find is how to change the grub background image (http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grub-images/ ). I would suspect that it is some kind of resolution problem. But grub only allows a 640x400 resolution for the background picture and I didn't find an option to change this (as I said before: only after making the choice).

On the other hand, I remember that on the initial grub screen during installation, one could choose it's resolution (sorry, it's a log time ago that I installed my system). When you boot from CD, does the grub screen appears correctly? Probably not, since the LiveCD doesn't work either.

Sorry, I just babble what comes to my mind, not very structured. Maybe a bios update will help.

Good luck!

Thanks, I willl read the HowTo. I will check the Pheonix weboage for any updates, but only brought the computer last week !!
ALAN

I hope I am not boring everybody, but !!!!!! a few more comments. I can run Knoppix 3.6 Live CD on the LG-LS50 notebook and everything works including the initial boot splash screen where you select boot options, so it would appear to be a Suse 9.1 / 9.2 problem.

It seems however you modify the boot loader in Suse 9.2 / Yast it only effects what happens after you make your boot selection, ie after the initial splash screen.

I am still trying !!

ALAN