Boot progress bar?

Highland007 · 04-11-2006, 05:22 PM

I have a Slackware 10.0 system with original 2.4.26 kernel and LILO boot manager, using "vga normal" mode. I would like to get rid of the kernel messages flying over screen during booting and use a text-mode or even better a graphical progress bar instead (like Mandrake and other "user friendly" distributions have).

If anyone wonders why on earth should one want that: well, it will be a kiosk-mode Internet communication and browsing machine and I would certainly not like to scare the inexperienced (Windows) users by exposing them to the boot messages...

demian · 04-11-2006, 05:23 PM

http://bootsplash.org/

Xian · 04-11-2006, 09:45 PM

Everything you need (kernel patch, example scripts, instructions, etc.) is in the Bootsplash package at LP.

Alien_Hominid · 04-12-2006, 02:00 AM

You can look here: http://members.optusnet.com.au/rkelsen/lilo.html and here http://j79zlr.com/howto.php?id=61 too.

Highland007 · 04-12-2006, 03:54 PM

Thank for all the answers! However, I have two more questions:

1.) Those bootsplashes for LILO are only shown until kernel starts booting, right? So they cannot help hide the kernel messages?

2.) from bootsplash.org "The bootsplash patch is available for 2.4.18-2.4.22 and 2.6.0-test9. The patches should also apply to newer versions of the Linux kernel."

Should I apply the patch to 2.4.26 or change the kernel to 2.4.22?

Alien_Hominid · 04-13-2006, 11:53 AM

Patches for older kernels won't work with newers.
Try applying it for 2.4.26 kernel and see if make bzImage gives any errors.
Yes, I think it would work for LILO until kernel boot (haven't tried it yet).

jong357 · 04-13-2006, 12:09 PM

Here is your 2.4.26 patch

http://www.bootsplash.de/files/old/b....7-2.4.26.diff

http://www.bootsplash.de/ is the place to go for patches and themes.

You'll have to modify rc.{M,S} to enable your progress bar but it's not that hard.

jong357 · 04-13-2006, 12:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Highland007

Thank for all the answers! However, I have two more questions:

1.) Those bootsplashes for LILO are only shown until kernel starts booting, right? So they cannot help hide the kernel messages?

Your splash screen will come up right away but your progress bar won't start moving until init is initialized. Or rather until the kernel get's done with it's internal stuff and rc.{M,S} starts to run.

EDIT- Oh.. I was talking about the kernel patches and Bootsplash itself. I wasn't aware lilo was capable of graphics. Don't confuse him guys. I think he want's bootsplash, not a way to graphically tweak out the bootloader screen. If it's a kiosk, then it should only have one OS and lilo should be set to time out at 0 seconds, goto bootsplash and then goto GDM (or similar)...