9.1 bootsplash problem
 

I have 9.1 installed on my desktop and my laptop. Everything works great, but on my desktop after you start the boot process from grub there is no splash screen. I have tried all of the choices. It works fine on my laptop. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Chris Andrews

Open up YaST, under the system tab there is a module called runlevel editor open it and look for these options:

splash
splash_early
splash_late

and check to make sure they are enabled

if those are enabled open up the /etc/sysconfig editor also found under the System tab in YaST.

then under System --> Boot there should be two options to look at:

THEME = SuSE
SPLASH = yes

9.1 bootsplash problem
 

Thanks for the advice. I checked everything that you recommended and they are all set to the correct settings. Is there some way to change the resolution or screen size of the boot splash. It is almost like it is having some kind of problem figuring out what to do so it just goes with the verbose mode.

Thanks,
Chris Andrews

The resolution of the boot splash is set by your system monitor resolution setup in XF86 so it is not likely that thats the issue. I would guess that the problem is eather that grub is set wrong or the package bootsplash-theme-SuSE was not installed or your system startup was not compiled to use a splash screen.

To check grub open up YaST and under System click on bootloader. When it opens Click on "Edit Configuration File" then find the line for Linux
it should look something like:

kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hde6 vga=0x31a splash=silent desktop resume=/dev/hde5 showopts


Look to make sure splash=silent

if it is setup than grub is set up right

Just pull open YaST Install Remove software to see if it's installed.

if neather of those fix the problem than the odds are that the splash image never got compiled into the system startup.

For info on that see SuSE's site

I took a look at my menu.lst file for grub and it all looks pretty good except i don't have an entry for vga=

Perhaps this is causing the problem?

Thanks,
Chris Andrews

Immediately following grub in the boot process, you should see a splash screen 'unless' you have errors of some sort in Suse initialization of your hardware, utilities, software, etc. Normal completed initilization items will appear in green, and errors are red or yellow I think (sorry never had any). If you can't see these errors as they occur you need to check out your boot logs. Take a look through var/log/boot.msg with kwrite and see if you can pick them out. Post them here if you need any help.

I shall check it out.

Thanks,
Chris Andrews