Hi!

I installed SUSE 9.2 successfully but now the splash screen for when the system is booting up has dissappeared. Initially it worked OK but then I screwed things up with System Commander, a Windows-based progam that manages OSs installed and the boot sequence... it erased GRUB and then I couldn't boot to SUSE. Booting through the SUSE CD I could access the system, and then I re-installed GRUB but now after selecting SUSE in the GRUB menu, I get all the text stuff until X starts up, in the old 80x25 console text mode. Before this, I could see the text stuff if I wanted by pressing ESC in the boot sequece, but even then it was presented in a nicer way, with a kind of splash graphical background for the text. Any idea how can I fix it???

Before you suggest this, I already checked the YAST->System->/etc/sysconfig files editor -> System -> Boot -> SPLASH option and it's set to "YES". Also, in the GRUB menu, in the SUSE selection, there are some parameters preset: "splash=static" and "desktop elevator=as". I don't know if this has anything to do with the problem. Apparently these are specific SUSE parameters for the "kernel" GRUB command, but I don't know much of what they do, apart that splash=static should display the splash screen (instead, splash=verbose should display the text stuff). I don't know about "desktop elevator".

THANKS!

have you looked into the possibility of the splash theme itself being gone?

OK and how can I check that, and re-install it? Any idea?

THANKS!

/etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/config and /etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/images .....taken from suse9.1 files,9.2 may be different.if the images themselves are missing,placing them in the image file with the proper name should work.i haven't gotten around to changing my splash screen so i'm not 100% sure about that.

OK, I checked and everything is perfectly into place. The files, the directories, the config files, the graphics, everything. So I wonder why the hell the splash doesn't appear.

I checked at www.bootsplash.org which is the bootsplash system included in SUSE 9.2 and I found out that the splash only works in 16 bpp color mode, and I had changed it to 24 bpp, maybe it was what caused the problem. But now it's back in 16 bpp and it still doesn't work.

This is something taken from my boot log, maybe it helps:

Supposedly it recognized the bootsplash silent mode, so it should appear. What's that "Console: colour VGA+ 80x25" stuff? Maybe that's why I see the text in 80x25???

Thanks...