Re: Bootsplash patches anyone?

I'm only going through some of the questions/issues now

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 03:16, Harald Milz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to this list but not to PXES... ran a nice customer project
> this year, recycling 560+ old Siemens PCs :-)
> 
> Basically, pxes-0.8 runs fine on the machines. There are a couple of
> issues, though.
> 
> The customer would like to add his own bootsplash to avoid seeing all
> these kernel boot messages. "console=null" would be an option but seeing
> nothing isn't actually a solution for Joe User. Since the PCs are rather
> old and we have ISA network cards (3c509) we can't boot via PXE but I
> added Etherboot boot roms. So far so good. Unfortunately, there is little
> support for bootsplash in PXES outside of the PXE chain. The stock PXES
> kernel does not support bootsplash per se. I'd patch the kernel source
> but it seems it is not available from the PXES site. Or is there a way to
> emulate PXE boot from an Etherboot boot rom? nbgrub doesn't do the trick
> because it only supports a splash for GRUB itself but not for the
> kernel. (By the way the stock PXES nbgrub does not contain the 3c509
> driver...)
> 
> Has anybody done that before? Would it make sense to replace the base
> files by those coming with Fedora core 1, at least the kernel and the
> modules? I could use the SuSE 9.0 kernel and modules... ;-)
> 
> Another issue is the X server. We have old SiS6326 cards in all of the
> machines, and the graphics performance with the ICA client is sloppy
> at best (worse than with the ancient Windows95 which we are supposed to
> replace :-( ). I'd like to try XFree86 4.4.0 or the X.org distribution but
> this requires a major change in PXES (other and more shared libraries). Any
> idea? 
You should go in the opposite direction. IMHO you should use XFree86
3.3.6 (including in PXES). New software and old hardware is not a good
combination.
> 
> ICA: Customers are now migrating to the ICA client 8.2 because the new
> Citrix server supposedly has some new features. The hardcoded version
> string should be replaced by a pxesconfig option IMHO. Collecting the
> files could be handled dynamically...
> 
Some dependencies and naming schemes are impossible to detect. That's
why pxesconfig handles only tested Citrix ICA versions.
> TIA!
> 
> Ciao,
> hm



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