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Mr Wind-up Bird 04-06-2003 09:07 AM
Bootsplash Hint
 
I've put some information together (mainly from the Gentoo forum) into an LFS hint for a bootsplash screen. Do you think anyone would be interested in me improving it a submitting it to the LFS people? Here's the first draft:

Code:
TITLE:                Installing a bootsplash screen with progress bar
LFS VERSION:        3.3
AUTHOR:                Bryan Gale <bryan@2dz.co.uk>

SYNOPSIS:
        How to hide kernel messages behind a splash screen and use a progress bar

HINT:

Required packages
-----------------

The SuSE bootsplash kernel patch (patch for 2.4.20 kernel also available)
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/stepan...8-vanilla.diff

The splashutils package
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/stepan...hutils.tar.bz2

A sample bootsplash theme
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/stepan...-Linux.tar.bz2

I shall presume these have been downloaded to /tmp


Patching the kernel
-------------------

Change to the directory containing your kernel sources and apply the patch:

        cd /usr/src/linux
        patch -p1 < /tmp/bootsplash-3.0.7-2.4.18-vanilla.diff

Configure the kernel

        make menuconfig

And select the following options

        Code maturity level options  --->
                Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers
        Block devices  ---> RAM disk support
        Block devices  ---> Initial RAM disk (initrd) support
        Console drivers  ---> Video mode selection support
        Console drivers  ---> Frame-buffer support --->
                Support for frame buffer devices
                VESA VGA graphics console
                Use splash screen instead of boot logo

Each of these must be compiled into the kernel, not selected as modules

Now compile and install your kernel

        make dep &&
        make bzImage &&
        make modules &&
        make modules_install &&
        cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/lfskernel


Installing user space utilities
-------------------------------

Unpack splashutils.tar.bz2, compile and copy the splash utility to /bin

        cd /tmp &&
        tar xvjf splashutils.tar.bz2 &&
        cd splashutils &&
        make &&
        cp ./splash /bin

Create a direcory for your bootsplash themes and unpack the provided theme into
it

        mkdir -p /etc/bootsplash/themes &&
        cd /etc/bootsplash/themes &&
        cp /tmp/Theme-Linux.tar.bz2 ./ &&
        tar xvjf Theme-Linux.tar.bz2

Now you can create a ram disk image from the theme that will be used when the
kernel boots

        splash -s -f /etc/bootsplash/themes/Linux/config/bootsplash-1024x768.cfg > \
        /boot/initrd


Updating Lilo
-------------

Add the following lines to /etc/lilo.conf under your kernel
entry:

        vga=791
        initrd=/boot/initrd

The vga line is required so the resolution on boot matches the size of your boot
image

If you want all kernel messags to be hidden, rather than printed on top of your
splash screen, add the following also

        append="splash=silent"

Now run Lilo and reboot your computer

        lilo &&
        shutdown -r now

When your computer restart you shoud have a pretty splash screen


Using the progress bar
----------------------

If you selected to hide the kernel messages, you will see a progress bar. To
use this, you will need to make some changes to your startup scripts. Change to
the directory containing the scripts for the runlevel you start your computer
at:

        cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d

Changing 5 to whatever runlevel you use. Edit these scripts, and wherever you
see:

        loadproc somecommand

Place the following line before it:

        echo "show XXXXX" > /proc/splash

Repalce XXXXX with how far allow the boot process is when somecommand is run,
out of 65534. It will take some trial and error to get a smooth progress bar


Using a different theme
-----------------------

Addtional themes can be found at http://www.bootsplash.org
To use a new theme, untar it somewhare and run

        splash -s -f [THEME CONFIG FILE] > /boot/initrd &&
        lilo

The theme configuration file is typically found in config/bootsplash-1024x768.cfg


Sources
-------

http://www.bootsplash.org
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=26494

lfslinux 04-06-2003 10:15 PM
Yes it's a good idea.

I do suggest subscribing to the blfs-support mailinglist (or use the blfs.support newsgroups on the news.linuxfromscratch.org server) and bring it up there too. You'll have at least a good thousand people who are reading that list so a lot of people can give you some good feedback (other than people here of course).

NGraphiX 04-07-2003 05:24 AM
Is there a way of doing it without downloading the pack'gs?
as in actually go through the code?
I know this is done by the kernel patch,
but it would be nice to do it yourself.

centr0 06-05-2003 11:02 PM
"Code maturity level options --->
Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers
Block devices ---> RAM disk support
Block devices ---> Initial RAM disk (initrd) support
Console drivers ---> Video mode selection support
Console drivers ---> Frame-buffer support --->
Support for frame buffer devices
VESA VGA graphics console
Use splash screen instead of boot logo"


when i 'make menuconfig' and check under the console drivers section it only has 2 choices
-VGA text console
-Video mode selection support

i got this kernel source 2.4.20 from kernel.org i never even tried installing bootsplash until im sure about this. where are the other options that im suppose to have?

upon installation i used bare.i kernel from slack cd. is there a way to extract the source bare.i to /usr/src/linux? i can just keep the config it has there and patch it right?

edok 06-13-2003 06:44 PM
i followed every step that you have indicated.. but when i reached make bzImage . . . i got an error that has something to do with the video cards.. i tried changing the options for the video card.. i selected ATI Mach 64 because that is what my video card is.. but i still get the same error.. i forgot to include the error message here... but can you tell me which log file should i look into so that i could post the error?


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