If bootsplash doesn't display an image on tty1...

eco2geek · 05-11-2007, 10:00 PM

Here's a head-scratcher I ran into. Posted here in hopes that it'll save someone else some time.

I'm running Debian testing (lenny) and compiled a bootsplash-enabled kernel. For some reason, after a dist-upgrade, I wasn't getting a background image on tty1. (I use "splash=verbose" instead of "splash=silent" in order to see what's going on when the computer boots.)

After looking through several files, it turned out that the reason an image wasn't being displayed on tty1 was that a line in /etc/default/bootsplash read

Code:

# Which consoles should be displayed with different bootsplash images
BOOTSPLASH_TTYS="1 2 3 4 5"

instead of

Code:

# Which consoles should be displayed with different bootsplash images
BOOTSPLASH_TTYS="0 1 2 3 4 5"

Additionally, in order to "turn on" the image on vtX, you can use a command similar to the following:

Code:

splash -s -u X /etc/bootsplash/themes/current/config/bootsplash-1024x768.cfg

Substitute 0-5 for "X" and your config file for "bootsplash-1024x768.cfg".

archtoad6 · 05-12-2007, 08:03 AM

Nice help.

Is the BOOTSPLASH_TTYS var. 0-based?

eco2geek · 05-12-2007, 12:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by archtoad6

Is the BOOTSPLASH_TTYS var. 0-based?

Apparently so (similar to GRUB, which starts with hard disk 0).