GRUB splash screen, 2 of those?

aditya.shevade · 25-01-2007, 12:21 AM

Hi

I installed opensuse 10.2 from the DVD provided with linux for you magazine.

Now whenever I restart from windows/suse and the GRUB loads, then the splash screen is a gif file, animated. With penguines mooving all around. It's brilliant.

But if I shut windows/suse down and press power butten, and then grub loads with a splash screen that is a plane blue wallpaper. So what is going on?

Aditya

mehulved · 25-01-2007, 01:33 AM

There's no grub while shutting down as far as I know.

**kalpik** · 25-01-2007, 09:58 AM

You have to edit /boot/message file for that.. But its a compressed file so ill write a tutorial for you!

1. in the terminal (from your home folder) type mkdir new
2. cp /boot/message new
3. cd new
4. cpio -i < message
5. dont close the terminal, and open the folder new in your home folder and edit "gfxboot.cfg" file in kwrite/gedit
6. change "penguin=-1" to "penguin=100" and save the file
7. now delete the message file in the new directory by typing "rm message"
8. now type "ls . | cpio -o > message"
9. now type "sudo cp message /boot", enter your root password if required.

That's it! Now you should be able to see the animated boot everytime!

P.S: If you wanna disable the animated boot, do penguin=0

aditya.shevade · 25-01-2007, 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tech_your_future

There's no grub while shutting down as far as I know.

Read carefully what I have written. Shut down and press power butten. That means start the pc again. Not restart, but a differant kind of restart.

Thanks Kalpik. I will try it out as soon as I boot into SUSE.

Aditya

phreak0ut · 25-01-2007, 12:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aditya.shevade

Hi

I installed opensuse 10.2 from the DVD provided with linux for you magazine.

Now whenever I restart from windows/suse and the GRUB loads, then the splash screen is a gif file, animated. With penguines mooving all around. It's brilliant.

But if I shut windows/suse down and press power butten, and then grub loads with a splash screen that is a plane blue wallpaper. So what is going on?

Aditya

Yes, this happens a lot of time. I found this animated boot screen, whenever there is something special on the calendar. I dont know if its purely co-incidential or its following some kind of pattern.
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Quote:

Originally Posted by kalpik

You have to edit /boot/message file for that.. But its a compressed file so ill write a tutorial for you!

1. in the terminal (from your home folder) type mkdir new
2. cp /boot/message new
3. cd new
4. cpio -i < message
5. dont close the terminal, and open the folder new in your home folder and edit "gfxboot.cfg" file in kwrite/gedit
6. change "penguin=-1" to "penguin=100" and save the file
7. now delete the message file in the new directory by typing "rm message"
8. now type "ls . | cpio -o > message"
9. now type "sudo cp message /boot", enter your root password if required.

That's it! Now you should be able to see the animated boot everytime!

Nice tut, but why does this happen?

**kalpik** · 25-01-2007, 01:00 PM

The suse developers were not sure whether all the customers would like the animated boot screen! Imagine the boot screen in an office environment! Hehe.. Though i agree, it would have been much better if they would give a simpler way of enabling the animated boot permanently..

The penguin=XXX gives the probability of the animated boot screen appearing.. 0 being disabled and 100 meaning 100% probability. -1 means random.

aditya.shevade · 25-01-2007, 08:58 PM

It worked all well. Reps for you.

Aditya

**kalpik** · 25-01-2007, 10:46 PM

Thanks

phreak0ut · 29-01-2007, 06:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kalpik

The suse developers were not sure whether all the customers would like the animated boot screen! Imagine the boot screen in an office environment! Hehe.. Though i agree, it would have been much better if they would give a simpler way of enabling the animated boot permanently..

The penguin=XXX gives the probability of the animated boot screen appearing.. 0 being disabled and 100 meaning 100% probability. -1 means random.

Ah!! That's cool. Reps added

**kalpik** · 29-01-2007, 07:30 PM

^^ Heh.. I didnt get any reps from you! Thanks anyways

By the way, i wrote this tutorial on my blog too and it got featured on TuxMachines and YouTux

phreak0ut · 03-02-2007, 01:35 PM

Oops!! Reps added now

unni · 03-02-2007, 05:31 PM

Can I do it in Mandriva also?

**kalpik** · 04-02-2007, 09:45 AM

^^ I have no idea about mandriva, as i haven't used it.. You can go ahead and try though!

hellknight · 28-02-2007, 02:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kalpik

You have to edit /boot/message file for that.. But its a compressed file so ill write a tutorial for you!

1. in the terminal (from your home folder) type mkdir new
2. cp /boot/message new
3. cd new
4. cpio -i < message
5. dont close the terminal, and open the folder new in your home folder and edit "gfxboot.cfg" file in kwrite/gedit
6. change "penguin=-1" to "penguin=100" and save the file
7. now delete the message file in the new directory by typing "rm message"
8. now type "ls . | cpio -o > message"
9. now type "sudo cp message /boot", enter your root password if required.

That's it! Now you should be able to see the animated boot everytime!

P.S: If you wanna disable the animated boot, do penguin=0

Thanx dude! The tutorial was rocking. I also changed by splash screen
Thanks very much!