Change the Penguins During Boot

timmit · 06-02-2008, 06:07 AM

During boot up, I've got the penguins displaying at the top, which is neat, but I want to change it to a Slackware logo. Probably something from the propaganda page. I noticed that the image for the LILO boot screen is a .bmp, so I did a system wide search for .bmp files to see where the penguin images are stored, but I could not come up with anything. Anyone know how to do this?

MS3FGX · 06-02-2008, 06:10 AM

That image is part of the kernel itself, not something provided by any Slackware-specific files.

I am sure it can be changed by editing the file the kernel uses to build it, but you would need to recompile the kernel to do it.

digger95 · 06-02-2008, 07:00 AM

The boot logos are in:

/usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/

and you're probably interested in: logo_linux_clut224.ppm

There's a procedure for converting a custom image to this format and then you recompile the kernel with the new image, but I never followed up on how to do it. A google search for 'change linux boot logo' or similar ought to get you what you need.

Dig