On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:10:08 +0200, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:00:18 +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: >> I'm using vga=791. The splash image displays at the grub screen, and >> the boot messages are "nice". (No graphics, but small and nice >> characters - haven't counted rows nor columns, but framebuffer must be >> working.) I have an nVidia GeForce4 video card and a Compaq 7550 >> monitor, using a stock 2.6.18 kernel. > > Thats grub-splashimages, not bootsplash. > > Anyway, I've got bootsplash working. I installed bootsplash, bootsplash- > themes-debian, linux-patch-bootsplash and had to build a new kernel > using the bootsplash patch. > > Install the full kernel sources, copy /boot/config* to /usr/src/linux- > source*/.config then > "make-kpkg --version=custom1 --added-patches=bootsplash kernel-image" > > (but there's a bit more to kernel-building than that)
and I also had to run mkinitramfs > /boot/initrd.2.6.21 to add the splash image to the initrd so it would get used, then add an initrd line to grub. -- Stephen Patterson :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: B416F0DE :: Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Don't be silly, Minnie. Who'd be walking round these cliffs with a gas oven?" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
