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Hi !
I am using with great satisfaction Extlinux in many distro i installed in my pc.
But i can not to understand how i can to do to execute bootsplash (plymouth) after bootloader; i get only verbose mode.
Someone does know how to get this (if it is possible ).
Bye
Francesco bat
is extlinux a distribution?
anyhow, plymouth is a software that needs to be installed & carefully set up (i'm sure either your sidtro or plymouth itself has documentation on how to do this).
and it's a pita to set up manually.
Extlinux is a bootloader (it's part of Syslinux).
I already have plymouth installed and it starts with Grub and with Lilo.
Now i substituted Grub and Lilo with Extlinux but i can not to understand in Extlinux configuration how to edit it to start plymouth.
In my extlinux.conf i have:
Code:
UI vesamenu.c32
PROMPT 0
MENU BACKGROUND splash.png
LABEL vmlinuz
MENU LABEL PCLinuxOS (^4.13.4-pclos1)
LINUX /boot/vmlinuz-4.13.4-pclos1
INITRD /boot/initrd-4.13.4-pclos1.img
LABEL failsafe
MENU LABEL Linux (^failsafe mode)
LINUX /boot/vmlinuz
INITRD /boot/initrd.img
ADDAPPEND failsafe vga=normal
LABEL vmlinuz
MENU LABEL PCLinuxOS (^4.12.14-pclos1)
LINUX /boot/vmlinuz-4.12.14-pclos1
INITRD /boot/initrd-4.12.14-pclos1.img
I added line: PROMPT 0
thinking it avoided text boot, but it doesn't work and i get text boot
Bye
Francesco bat
i would guess you need to copy the complete /boot/vmlinuz and /boot/initrd lines from /boot/grub/grub.cfg (or lilo's config), with all its options (i'm guessing something like "quiet splash".
also, grub has an option to hide itself completely - i'm not even sure extlinux has that option.
i would guess you need to copy the complete /boot/vmlinuz and /boot/initrd lines from /boot/grub/grub.cfg (or lilo's config), with all its options (i'm guessing something like "quiet splash".
also, grub has an option to hide itself completely - i'm not even sure extlinux has that option.
I tried this some days ago, but i didn't get results !
Then maybe the function is not supported; anyway now it is the best boot loader for me
Thank you.
Bye
Francesco bat
what does extlinux documentation say about it?
i don't believe that it isn't possible to add kernel command line parameters.
anyhow, that's only the first step to getting a plymouth boot animation.
searched plymouth's documentation?
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