RH7.3 boot splash screen

LiNuts · 08-21-2002, 12:23 AM

Is there a way to change the crappy looking boot splash screen, i am using lilo not grub.

In Mandrake there was a dir /usr/share/bootsplash where you could change the jpg image for the boot splash screen, but cannot find anything like that in RH7.3.
cheers
LiNuts

**trommaster** · 08-22-2002, 01:50 AM

is this the image at lilo? or when the computer is booting up?
I don't think you can change it when its booting up,unless you download the aurora source from mandrake and edit it to run on a redhat box.
Otherwise, for lilo, try
http://cgi.tripod.com/lvgandhi/cgi-b...l?lnxbthnt.txt

LiNuts · 08-22-2002, 06:40 AM

O.K. got a new bootsplash screen, It was quite simple really, The pic had to be 320x200 in pcx format and using indexed colours not rgb, then i just copied the pic to /boot/message (after backing-up the original) then re-ran /sbin/lilo.

Now i have to find a way of ant-aliasing the font in lilo's menu.

Cheers
LiNuts

**trommaster** · 08-22-2002, 10:51 PM

Originally Posted by LiNuts

O.K. got a new bootsplash screen, It was quite simple really, The pic had to be 320x200 in pcx format and using indexed colours not rgb, then i just copied the pic to /boot/message (after backing-up the original) then re-ran /sbin/lilo.

great, might try it myself

Now i have to find a way of ant-aliasing the font in lilo's menu.

definitly, that font sucks

Alastair

**friskydrifter** · 09-05-2002, 12:36 PM

Sounds like fun but /boot/message isn't a directory on my system?? wadda u mean u copied it to boot message? did u create a dir called /boot/message??