Redhat 7.3 boot splash screen

**LiNuts** · 08-20-2002, 10:36 AM

Is there a way i can change the lilo boot splash screen, the default one is really crappy.

In Mandrake there was a dir called bootsplash where one could chane the jpg pic to have a different boot screen, but i cannot find it in the RH distro. I have searched Google for an answer, but most of the searches produced stuuf related to either SuSe or mandrake.
Cheers
LiNuts

**Schotty** · 08-20-2002, 09:34 PM

/boot/grub has all of grub's stuff in it. There is a asplash xpm tarball that has the image in it.

**LiNuts** · 08-21-2002, 05:29 AM

[quote author=ShadowMan link=board=7;threadid=4645;start=0#46428 date=1029879270]
/boot/grub has all of grub's stuff in it. There is a asplash xpm tarball that has the image in it.
[/quote]

ShadowMan, thanks for the reply, but i'm not using grub, i'm using lilo.

Cheers
LiNuts

**redhead** · 08-21-2002, 09:59 AM

Change the message setting in your /etc/lilo.conf to point to the picture you want..
It's a 320x200pxl in 72x72dpi XPM image.. Just make your own, and point the lilo setting to that.

**LiNuts** · 08-21-2002, 12:47 PM

[quote author=redhead link=board=7;threadid=4645;start=0#46515 date=1029923971]
Change the message setting in your /etc/lilo.conf to point to the picture you want..
It's a 320x200pxl in 72x72dpi XPM image.. Just make your own, and point the lilo setting to that.
[/quote]

redhead, dont tell me its that easy, is it ??, do i have to run mkinitrd or anything, or just do /sbin.lilo.

The reason i ask, is that i tried to use an animated boot splash that i downloaded, and had to run /sbin/lilo -v for it to work, ( It didn't, and it stuffed my lilo up ).

So I create a xpm pic with the dimensions you said, copy it to /boot/message2 (or something like that) and edit lilo.conf to point to message2 instead of message. Then what command do i give lilo to recognise it. (/sbin.lilo -v ?)
Cheers
LiNuts
edit: No wonder my bootsplash looks crappy if it is only 320x200 it fills the screen and looks jagged.

**redhead** · 08-21-2002, 01:10 PM

I have no knowledge of how, wether if an animated bootspalsh will work..
But basicaly yes, just run /sbin/lilo -v after setting it up.. If it complains, then either the image dosn't follow the guidelines, or it dosn't understand how to show it.

**LiNuts** · 08-22-2002, 10:37 AM

O.K. I have a new boot splash screen, Thanks to all for the help, I did as redhead suggested, the only thing was i had to use indexed colours not rgb, and i just re-ran /sbin/lilo (not -v) and rebooted with a new splash screen.
Cheers
LiNuts