Bootsplash with SuSE 9.1 Pro

evilmonkey · 09-24-2004, 08:54 AM

Hello. I recently installed SuSE 9.1 pro, but I have a text bootup. I went into YaST, and saw that bootsplash was installed, so it should be a simple matter of enabling it somewhere. Can anyone give me a pointer? Thanks!

ithawtewrong · 09-24-2004, 06:24 PM

I think that you're really asking to boot into XWindows. (KDE or GNOME)
If that is the case then you need to edit your inittab file and enter a default runlevel of 5.

The file is located in the /etc directory.

A runlevel of 3 is probably what you have, which is text based.

You can still access the GUI booting the way your are, just type startx at the command line.

evilmonkey · 09-24-2004, 07:22 PM

No, no, that's not what I mean. GUI boots fine, I'm interested in the splashscreen, instead of the text boot-up. You know, where you have a bunch of lines running down the screen and a green [ OK ] od DONE is wriiten to the right of each line. I want to replace that with the SuSE chameleon screen.

evilmonkey · 09-25-2004, 10:06 AM

Hello. I ran a SuSE online update, and now everything works. For tose having trouble getting bootsplash to work, a system update may help.

avalachi · 10-15-2004, 12:57 AM

No, it doesn't help. I might even say that it dissapeared after some upgrades...
Everything is fine - enabled in Yast, enabled in grub.conf, it was working perfect and then...
I keep looking and maybe I will come with an answer.

Cheers

iainvt · 10-16-2004, 03:37 AM

I would assume in suse you will be using grub, so edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and in the kernel line you will need to place 'splash=silent' in the line, and if it says currently splash=verbose, delete this.

Devils_Guardian · 10-20-2004, 03:57 AM

This is out of my /boot/grub/menu.lst file....
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/swirl.xpm.gz

Im not sure where the image came from, that is acually how I ran across this, I am looking for a good place to get some others.... customize a little more.

If anyone knows.. please lemme know!!