On Tue May 09, 2000 at 09:16:56AM +0200, Stephan Linz wrote:
>
>
> Erik Andersen wrote:
>
> > On Mon May 08, 2000 at 11:38:25PM -0500, Richard Jennings wrote:
> > > Does anyone know how to display an image at boot time. I would like
> > > to have a splash screen that displayed during the boot process.
> > >
> > > Caldera and Corel both have a graphical display at boot but I haven't
> > > been able to figure out how it is done.
> >
> > The latest Caldera Open Linux has a patched up
> > version of GRUB that can display a full screen
> > image on boot.
>
> Hi all,
>
> is it really so? My Caldera boots classic with LILO and also I can see an
> splash sreen. I find out that Caldera pathed the LILO so there is an new
> stage 2 to switch into another VGA graphic mode (274) and show a binary
> message file (the splash screen). If you want to use this VGA grphic mode
> you have to enable the frame buffer in your kernel config and recompile it.
>
> Good luck, Stephan.
Caldera 2.4 includes their patched up lilo (lacks source and uses a modified
message file containing a PCX minus headers plus some x86 asm -- ugh).
It also includes their patched up version of GRUB (which is a much nicer).
-Erik
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