Animated lilo ..

[bvc]

Looks like when version 3 comes out this will be the way to go!

http://www.bootsplash.org/

[MottS]

HEY !! I really like that progress bar. You guys in Mandrake can play with it no prob .. out of the box. In Gentoo I had to patch the kernel to enable framebuffer bootsplash with the patch they supply on the website (it's in the portage tree). I currently have this image when I boot.

 

http://www.kde-look.org/content/download.p...hp?content=5062

 

I'll try to get the progress bar --> this one:

 

http://www.bootsplash.org/silent-mode.jpg

 

Thanks for the link bvc !

[jlc]

I found these while rummaging through cooker. You can get them bye doing the following. I don't know if they will work on 9.1, but they are from "cooker"

 

# rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/Mandrake/mandrake/current/i586/Mandrake/RPMS.cooker/bootsplash-themes-1.4.1-1mdk.i586.rpm

 

Also found these on another site.

 

http://www.bfcomputerconsulting.com/mandra...bootsplash.html

 

This one just looks clean and sweet.

 

[phunni]

I get the following error with both the blue xray and the penguins one:

 

Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different

head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80

    fn 08: 1023 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors

    fn 48: 33525 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors

Fatal: /boot/xray-blue.boot is too big (> 65535 bytes)

 

Here is my lilo.conf:

 

boot=/dev/hda

message=/boot/xray-blue.boot

map=/boot/map

install=/boot/boot.b

prompt

timeout=100

lba32

default=gentoo



image=/boot/bzImage

       label=gentoo

       read-only

       root=/dev/hda3

 

Any thoughts?

 

Edit: BTW am running gentoo...

[MottS]

Edit: BTW am running gentoo...

Phunni, you have to run a old version of Lilo. Don't know why but the latest stable one doesn't work with xray-bootsplash. Look in /usr/portage and install an old version of lilo .. this is going to work.

 

MottS

[phunni]

ah yes - so it does....

 

nice.

[mandrakewilson]

This works in 9.2-rc2 also, but I also had to load the earlier version of lilo whose link was posted above. Excellent. :wink:

[james]

Fantastic! Looks nice. Thanks MottS ! :)

[phunni]

HEY !!  I really like that progress bar. You guys in Mandrake can play with it no prob .. out of the box.  In Gentoo I had to patch the kernel to enable framebuffer bootsplash with the patch they supply on the website (it's in the portage tree).  I currently have this image when I boot.

 

http://www.kde-look.org/content/download.p...hp?content=5062

 

I'll try to get the progress bar    --> this one:

 

http://www.bootsplash.org/silent-mode.jpg

 

Thanks for the link bvc !

Did you ever get this working? I can't seem to figure out how you specify which image to have while booting - I have framebuffer working, but it's just a small penguin at the top...

[bvc]

all works in 9.2

[phunni]

I, like Motts, am using gentoo though so...