On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 13:02, Neil Bird wrote:
> Around about 24/07/2003 17:46, Chris Bice typed ...
> > Is it possible to install the bootsplash features in RedHat 9??
> > ANy help would be greatly appreciated.
..
> Install your new kernel RPM (leave old one just in case), install a
> theme into it's initrd & reboot ...
I opted for hacking a little with the mkinitrd source so that instead of
manually having to modify the initrd image and grub config- mkinitrd
would take care of it when the newly built kernel was installed.
diff -Naur sbin_original/mkinitrd sbin_new/mkinitrd
--- sbin_original/mkinitrd 2003-07-23 00:38:57.000000000 +0100
+++ sbin_new/mkinitrd 2003-07-23 01:28:36.000000000 +0100
@@ -504,6 +504,18 @@
mkdir -p $MNTIMAGE/lib
mkdir -p $MNTIMAGE/bin
mkdir -p $MNTIMAGE/etc
+
+if [ -e "/etc/bootsplash/splash.cfg" ]
+then
+ mkdir -p $MNTIMAGE/etc/bootsplash/themes/plex
+ cp -f /etc/bootsplash/themes/plex/boot*.jpg $MNTIMAGE/etc/bootsplash/themes/plex
+ cp -f /etc/bootsplash/splash*.cfg $MNTIMAGE/etc/bootsplash/
+ cp -f /sbin/fbresolution $MNTIMAGE/bin/fbresolution
+#cp -f /sbin/getkey $MNTIMAGE/bin/getkey
+ cp -f /sbin/progress $MNTIMAGE/bin/progress
+ cp -f /sbin/splash $MNTIMAGE/bin/splash
+fi
+
mkdir -p $MNTIMAGE/dev
mkdir -p $MNTIMAGE/loopfs
mkdir -p $MNTIMAGE/proc
@@ -572,6 +584,15 @@
echo "echo Mounting /proc filesystem" >> $RCFILE
echo "mount -t proc /proc /proc" >> $RCFILE
+if [ -e "/etc/bootsplash/splash.cfg" ]
+then
+ echo "/sbin/splash -s -u0 -n /etc/bootsplash/splash.cfg" >> $RCFILE
+ echo "/sbin/splash -s -u1 -n /etc/bootsplash/splash_booted.cfg" >> $RCFILE
+ echo "/sbin/splash -s -u2 -n /etc/bootsplash/splash_booted.cfg" >> $RCFILE
+ echo "/sbin/splash -s -u3 -n /etc/bootsplash/splash_booted.cfg" >> $RCFILE
+ echo "/sbin/splash -s -u4 -n /etc/bootsplash/splash_booted.cfg" >> $RCFILE
+ echo "/sbin/splash -s -u5 -n /etc/bootsplash/splash_booted.cfg" >> $RCFILE
+fi
And also mkinitrd-3.4.42/grubby/new-kernel-pkg - around line 84 to
automatically add the vga=XXX for grub.
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