You know when it shows Tux at the top while everything is loading? Anybody know how to change that image into something else?

Use the search, Luke!


Cheers,
Tink

I still have no clue... it already shows a picture while the system is loading all the stuff, i just wanna change it.

I'm new to linux, but I don't think it's lilo, it shows the image while the actual OS is loading

it's part of the framebuffer settigns for the kernel. you can change it but not without recompiling your kernel and a lot of messing around. some distro's like gentoo provide a choice of logo's but this is not common.

This has Gentoo stuff, but for anybody who wants to do the same thing this should be helpfull: http://linux.tkdack.com/node.php?id=14 gives some info. I'll try to recompile my kernel for the first time now

The penguin logo that displays when you choose framebuffer mode on LILO is defined on a file named linux_logo.h

I use fblogo (@freshmeat) to generate a new one, for example:

http://linuxbr.org/ss/linux_logo.png

In that case, I also "hide" the kernel messages, changing console to tty12 for instance:

append="console=/dev/tty12 CONSOLE=/dev/tty12"

Besides replacing the logo and altering the lilo.conf, you need to specify your new logo attributes on fbcon.c (usually /usr/src/linux/drivers/video/fbcon.c). Recompile the kernel and that's it.

For the new kernel, 2.5/2.6 the procedure is different, there are some programs being developed for that matter like bootsplash.org.

Is there any way to pull off this cool trick with grub as well?

EDIT: I worked it out. just add vga=<mode> to the kernel arguments