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On 17 August 2005 18:22, John Dangler wrote: |
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> Uwe~ |
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> Yes, please share! I'd be interested to see how this goes together |
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Alright, it took me less time than I thought. ;-) |
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Here it goes: |
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1. |
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Cd to /etc/splash. Create a subdirectory with the name of your theme. That's |
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"sysex" in my case because that's the name of my company for which I have |
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done it (just to squash any snide remarks before the come my way: It's SysEx |
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rather than SySex). Inside that subdirectory, you create another one by the |
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name "images". |
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2. |
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Use an existing images or create one with your favourite program for that. I |
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used an existing one and edited with The Gimp. Actually, you need two |
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matching ones, one for the "silent" screen, one for the "verbose" screen. The |
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silent one is for the splash screen showing a progress bar and hiding all |
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boot-up messages. The verbose one is for hitting "F2" during the boot process |
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and for the virtual text consoles. At this stage, you have to decide which |
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resolution you can use with your video card. I only use 1024x758, so I skip |
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all the other resolutions. If you want all of them (like in emergence you |
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have to create them all but you don't need to. Resize the images in The Gimp |
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to 1024x768 (or whatever resolution you want and can use) and save them as |
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"silent-1024x768.jpg" and "verbose-1024x768.jpg". Copy them over |
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to /boot/grub/. |
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3. |
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Create a file with this content: |
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--- start file --- |
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# Copyright 2004 Gentoo Foundation |
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# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 |
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# |
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# |
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***************************************************************************** |
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# Gentoo-Emergence - a sample gensplash theme, bootsplash compatibility mode |
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# This file should be placed in /etc/splash/emergence/ |
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# |
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***************************************************************************** |
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bgcolor=0 |
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tx=25 |
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ty=28 |
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tw=979 |
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th=728 |
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text_x=204 |
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text_y=544 |
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text_size=26 |
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text_color=0xeef4ff |
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pic=/etc/splash/sysex/images/verbose-1024x768.jpg |
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silentpic=/etc/splash/sysex/images/silent-1024x768.jpg |
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#pic256=/etc/splash/emergence/images/verbose-1024x768-240.png |
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#silentpic256=/etc/splash/emergence/images/silent-1024x768-256.png |
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box silent noover 204 582 820 612 #04045498 |
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box silent inter 204 583 204 611 #ffff00 #ffff00 #526bb0 #526bb0 |
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box silent 204 583 820 611 #ffffff #ffffff #526bb0 #526bb0 |
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box silent 204 582 820 582 #313234 |
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box silent 204 612 820 612 #eef4ff |
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box silent 204 582 204 612 #313234 |
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box silent 820 582 820 612 #eef4ff |
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box noover 20 20 1004 750 #04045498 |
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--- end file --- |
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Save it to /etc/splash/sysex/1024x768.cfg. Replace any occurrence fo "sysex" |
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by the name you call your theme. |
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4. |
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Create another matching image with very few colours. Save it as sysex.jpg. If |
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you haven't emerge ImageMagick yet do it now. Use "convert -colors 16 -depth |
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8 sysex.jpg sysex.xpm". Gnuzip "sysex.xpm" (gzip sysex.xpm) and copy |
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"sysex.xpm.gz" to /boot/grub/". |
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5. |
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Assuming your /usr/src/linux points to your current kernel sources, do a |
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"genkernel --menu-config --gensplash=sysex --gensplash-res=1024x768 all". |
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Replace "sysex" by your theme name and "1024x768" by your resolution. When |
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the kernel configuration comes up, go to "Device Drivers" --> "Graphics |
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Support". Enable "VESA VGA Graphics Support", and in there also "vesafb-tng". |
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Also enable "Support for framebuffer splash". Do whatever else configuration |
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you need. Let everything build. |
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6. |
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This should generate "/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6" |
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and /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6", or whatever other kernel |
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you are using. If not so, well, you made a mistake somewhere along the line. |
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(or I mistyped something ;-) |
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7. |
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Create an entry in your /boot/grub/grub.conf like this: |
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--- start config file ---- |
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default 0 |
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timeout 10 |
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splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/sysex.xpm.gz |
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title= NOS - The Namibian Office Solution by SysEx (Pty) Ltd. |
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root (hd0,1) |
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kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 |
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init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 udev quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 |
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video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1024x768-16 splash=silent,theme:sysex |
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initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 |
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--- end config file --- |
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Obviously, you have to edit everything "sysex" and the harddisk to fit your |
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system. Also the kenel version. If your boot partition is on SCSI you |
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probably also have to add the option "doscsi" to the kernel options. |
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Compared to the recommended HOWTO somewhere on Gentoo, this gives you a splash |
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screen that kicks in far earlier and does hardware recognition far superior. |
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Uwe |
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95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software |
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developers. - Linus Torvalds |
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http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) |
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