Make Gentoo startup look like LiveCD
 

Hey all,

I was just wondering if someone could give me the idiots guide to the whole frambuffer/bootsplash setup on a Gentoo system. I followed their tutorial located here:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=49036

And searched their forums a little bit, but I just can't get my startup boot sequence show with custom fonts and a background image, like the LiveCD shows, or as in example from a user on the Gentoo forum here.

Any quick idiot's guides for this one? Thanks

Dude, that is the authoritative How-To on the Gentoo FB setup.
If that isn't working, what is happening?
Post your dmesg.

I'm taking a look at my kernel, and I was wondering where these options are in a 2.4 kernel, I can:t find them:

Device Drivers --->

Graphics support --->
< > nVidia Riva support (do not enable!)
Logo configuration --->
[ ] Bootup logo (do not enable!)



Also, how do I post my dmesg?

Scroll down the screen under device drivers you just havn't got there yet logo configuration is on the first screen at the bottom if you are useing menuconfig.Make your terminal as big as you can so you can see everything,use xterm and hold the ctrl key and right click on it and pick huge.

At the very bottom is Grsecurity, then an option to load an alternate kernel. Btw, my screen now kinda loads with a bootplash, but I have a feeling it's conflicting with the bootlogo option I missed, b/c when I startup, theres a little white square with a gentoo logo in the upper left, but the rest of the screen is black scrolling console.

All I have under Console Drivers > Framebuffer Support is an area that looks like this for the boot logo:

And all u get from clicking that is a bunch of different options for boot logos, but no way to disable it.

Well, I'm still searching, but can anyone lead me to the way to disable the following configuratioon:

I can't find logo configuration in the kernel, I don't see Device Drivers, only Console Drivers.

It is right before you get to load alternative configuration,if you are using menuconfig,when you find it you are going to say I can't believe I didn't see that!:scratch:

In Graphics Support you need to have the Bootsplash option checked as well as the Framebuffer option. What kernel sources are you using? They may not have the bootsplash patch installed.

This is the guide I used,works great,just don't skip anything.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=49036

Well, I took a look again, but even with the smallest font available for my terminal in full screen, this is what I see:

Maybe something didn't install right?

Your right,I didn't check your previous post ,I always used menuconfig with a 2.6.x and not a 2.4.x must be the difference.I would try the 2.6.x emerge gentoo-dev-sources.here it is for the 2.4.x kernel Code maturity level options --->[*] Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers
Processor type and features --->[*] MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support
Block Devices ->[*] Loopback device support[*] RAM disk support
(4096) Default RAM disk size[*] Initial RAM disk (initrd) support
Console Drivers ->[*] VGA text console[*] 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

Ok, I'll try updating my kernel to 2.6.x later, right now I'm emerging a couple things. Btw, could anybody tell me how to take a screenshot of my bootup, just so I could show everyone how it looks right now, like a print screen or something?

# emerge fbgrab
# fbgrab screen_shot.png

Also, just to let you know, gentoo-dev-sources has officially moved away from bootsplash and is using a new system called gensplash. Apparently the Gentoo developer got tired of always having to fix the bootsplash patch every time a new kernel came out so he made his own. sweet...

can I use that to take a picture at boot?

We'll once you login you can take a snapshot which will look something like this.