Animated LILO Boot screen

jitun · 25-12-2005, 11:50 AM

The installation cd of suse linux 10 has a animated bootscreen.Here a link to a file that shows how the bootloader looks like in the installation cd.

Code:

http://rapidshare.de/files/9785321/Suse_Boot.rar.html

(only 128 kb file.)
So if this is done on a cd then i believe that this can also be done in my system i.e. i will get such an animated backgroung when booting my pc.I am using SuSE Linux 10.Is anyone knows how to make such a eyecandy please reply.

I will be waiting.Thanks in advance

praka123 · 26-12-2005, 07:10 AM

what do you want to achieve...if u want to have a splash image with grub,,,u can put this line acccordingly in ur menu.list or grub.conf..

Code:

splashimage=(hd0,8)/grub/splashimages/grub-splash-debblue.xpm.gz

or do u want boot splash..?perhaps u may need to patch kernel source and recompile the kernel....but in Debian GNU/Linux U can get a nice bootsplash utility called "splashy"..which u can put any custom bootsplash image...Best of LUX///

jitun · 28-12-2005, 09:58 PM

Ok people nobody here gave an satisifactory answer to the question i posted in this thread.So i reverse-engneered the files found in the /boot/loader directory on that cd and in the file bootloader i found a site adress neatly written in between some crap looking binary characters.that is the answer to my question.

Code:

http://gamers.org/~quinet/lilo/

I am not posting this to take any credit.but it is only for those people who have the same question like me.(there were a lot of view on this topic i saw.)