Re: Re: Re: Re: Bootsplash

On Tuesday 21 September 2004 20:08, Rick Cipoletti wrote:
> Thanks Florian.  I do have the line "initrd initrd.splash" in a
> linuxboot.cfg but wonder if this is the correct file.  I have the latest
> version of Xebian and the only linuxboot.cfg I can find is
> /boot/linuxboot.cfg.  There are four similar files in this folder:
> linuxboot.cfg, linuxboot.cfg.fatx_e, linuxboot.cfg.fatx_f,
> linuxboot.cfg.hdd_xbe.  I tried changing them all and no luck.  I also have
> no /debian subdir.  Are the files located somewhere else?

Are you booting from fatx?

If so, the relevant linuxboot.cfg is in E:\debian.

David

>       From: Florian Freund <florian@gm...>
>        Re: Re: Bootsplash
>       2004-09-20 22:07
>  Don"t forget to redirect the output of the splash command into the
>  initrd file via "> initrd.splash"
>  Do you have the following line in your linuxboot.cfg file?
>
>  initrd initrd.splash
>
>  The initrd file has do live in the same directory where youre kernel
>  and your linuxboot.cfg lives.
>  Normaly this is on an FATX partition in the debian subdir.
>
>  Greetings
>
>  Florian
>
>  Am 21.09.2004 um 01:02 schrieb Rick Cipoletti:
>  > Ok, I tried using the splash command but no luck.  There was an
>  > "initrd" as
>  > well as an "initrd.splash.gz" so I tried both and neither worked.
>  >
>  > splash -s -f
>  > /etc/bootsplash/themes/current/config/bootsplash-1024x768.cfg
>  >
>  >>> /boot/initrd
>  >
>  > splash -s -f
>  > /etc/bootsplash/themes/current/config/bootsplash-1024x768.cfg
>  >
>  >>> /boot/initrd.splash.gz
>  >
>  >       From: Florian Freund <florian@gm...>
>  >        Re: Bootsplash
>  >       2004-09-20 09:01
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  You have to rebuild the initrd.
>  >  splash -s -f <pathtothemeconfig> >> <pathtoinitrd> (i think)
>  >
>  >  Am 20.09.2004 um 13:44 schrieb Rick Cipoletti:
>  >> I was interested in changing the look of the xebian bootup.  I was
>  >> under the impression Xebian used http://www.bootsplash.org/.  Can
>  >> anyone tell me where the configuration files are located?  I found a
>  >> theme in /etc/bootsplash but modifications to this theme do not impact
>  >> the bootup.

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