Slackware Boot (Seeing Double)

Oz-E · 06-06-2003, 06:55 PM

I installed the slackware kernel source and changed a few things, added SMP Support etc. All is fine but when I boot of the new kernel the Linux penguin at the top has a buddy! There are two of them!

Can someone tell me how to fix this or maybe give some info on where the image comes from. Are the boot fonts and the logo stored in the actual kernel or elsewhere?

Any info would be apprecaited1

Thanks alot!

Blindsight · 06-06-2003, 07:04 PM

man lilo.conf , there's probably an option in your /etc/lilo.conf that's putting that graphic on your screen on bootup. This isn't in your kernel, it's in your bootloader.

Everything else works fine?

Oz-E · 06-06-2003, 07:06 PM

yes everything is working fine!

i didnt change too much in kernel just added few things i needed!

I've checked lilo.conf as i had to add new boot option when i was testing the kernel!

There is nothing in there about it!

Slackware has this logo out of the box!

Thx

Blindsight · 06-06-2003, 07:18 PM

you probably have a message=/boot/messages in your lilo.conf, right? Remove it and tux will disappear.

Oz-E · 06-06-2003, 07:53 PM

yes but the boot message file is just plain text!

a welcome msg! how would that display tux?

thx

Blindsight · 06-06-2003, 08:18 PM

*puff puff pass*

you're right. I was using my jump to conclusions mat.

Regardless, the graphic is still somewhere in your bootloader, I'd bet. Are you using lilo or some other bootloader?

Oz-E · 06-06-2003, 08:50 PM

no its lilo!

the logo doesnt show during the bootloader section just once the kernel goes to work and starts booting the system!

thx

Blindsight · 06-06-2003, 09:06 PM

oh, it might be that "video for linux" BS.

I used that once, and I think I know waht you mean, it's like a little square with tux in it, right? Look into video for linux, read the docs on it.

Oz-E · 06-06-2003, 09:20 PM

fuck it! there can be 2 penguins for now! cant be bothered.. lol..

thx for trying.. pretty sure its nothin to do with vid for nix!

cheers

c_you_l8r · 06-07-2003, 12:02 AM

Actually, I've run into this on several different distros. At least in my humble experience, a Tux appears for every processor it detects, and if you're running dual monitors, then each tux has 2 heads.

In case you're wondering, I run dual monitors w/ Athlon MP 1500s. :-)

Good luck if you want go get rid of it.

Oz-E · 06-07-2003, 12:09 AM

so u got 4 little tux's?

damn that must suck!

lol

Blindsight · 06-07-2003, 12:21 AM

Oz-E, here's your answer. Tux appears when you compile in Framebuffer support.

Taken from the Framebuffer HOWTO, specifically:

http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-4.html

Sorry for beating around the bush. Turned 21 today, I'm fscking wasted. But I find the right answers in due time, regardless of moderation.

Hope this helps.