Bruce Marshall wrote:

On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:29 am, James Knott wrote:

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I've recently installed SuSE 9.3. One thing I don't like, is that incredibly ugly, out of focus image that now appears, when the computer boots. How can I change it to something that's not so bad? I've tried changing themes, accordiing to the instructions in another thread, but it only takes effect after login. That image also appears during shut down.

It never ceases to amaze me how people get so concerned as to what the boot/shutdown screen looks like.... :-)

Don't boot so often... an easy fix.

It's a notebook computer, which does get booted frequently. I normally don't boot my desktop system very often. Incidentally, it looks like I've found where it's set. There's a file /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash, which specifies where the theme is. It appears under /etc/bootsplash/Themes/SuSE. I'll have to copy that folder over from a 9.2 system. tnx jk

James Knott wrote:

James Knott wrote:

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Bruce Marshall wrote:

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On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:29 am, James Knott wrote:

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I've recently installed SuSE 9.3. One thing I don't like, is that incredibly ugly, out of focus image that now appears, when the computer boots. How can I change it to something that's not so bad? I've tried changing themes, accordiing to the instructions in another thread, but it only takes effect after login. That image also appears during shut down.

It never ceases to amaze me how people get so concerned as to what the boot/shutdown screen looks like.... :-)

Don't boot so often... an easy fix.

It's a notebook computer, which does get booted frequently. I normally don't boot my desktop system very often.

Incidentally, it looks like I've found where it's set. There's a file /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash, which specifies where the theme is. It appears under /etc/bootsplash/Themes/SuSE. I'll have to copy that folder over from a 9.2 system.

tnx jk

Hmmm... I've copied the "SuSE" folder from 9.2 to "SuSE_9.2" in /etc/bootsplash/Themes and used the sysconfig editor, to point the bootsplash to that folder, but it still shows the original images.

How does one change the images? Why does the sysconfig editor not appear to make any difference?

I've even tried replacing the SuSE folder, with the 9.2 version. Still no difference. Why is it so difficult to make such a simple change??? What am I missing?

Anders Johansson wrote:

On Thursday 19 May 2005 17:32, James Knott wrote:

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I've even tried replacing the SuSE folder, with the 9.2 version. Still no difference.

Why is it so difficult to make such a simple change??? What am I missing?

Did you remember to run mk_initrd ? The boot splash image is stored in there, which is how it can be displayed before the root file system is mounted

That should be mkinitrd. In 9.2, there's a symlink mk_initrd, pointing to it, but not in 9.3 Also, perhaps I'm missing something obvious here, but if I make a change in the sysconfig editor, shouldn't there be some mention somewhere, about running mk_initrd? I can't find any info on changing the image in the 9.3 admin guide or SuSE Linux 9 Bible. It also doesn't work. When I run mkinitrd, it shows the appropriate files being used. Also, /boot/initrd shows an updated write time. So while it runs and saves a new file, it apparently doesn't change the image. Further, the "Help" in sysconfig editor contains the following: "After you save your changes, this editor changes the variables in the corresponding sysconfig file. Then it starts activation commands, which changes the underlying configuration files, stops and starts daemons, and runs low-level configuration tools so your configuration in sysconfig takes effect." Wouldn't this imply, that any changes should be automatically executed, without running mkinitrd?

James Knott wrote:

Why is it so difficult to make such a simple change??? What am I missing?

I solve it the same way immediately after every modern Linux install. I edit /boot/grub/menu.txt to replace splash=silent (or whatever splash= is set to) with splash=0. It's a lot easier than mkinitrd. -- "Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made." John 1:3 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/

On Friday 20 May 2005 15:29, James Knott wrote:

All that does, is turn off the graphic display during boot up. I am able to change that to something suitable. However, I still get that ugly picture at the boot options

That's the grub 'message' file. Have a look at /boot/message or /etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/bootloader/message, it is a cpio archive. If you unpack it you should be able to see how to change it

and User/password screens. Is there any way of changing that???

That's the kdm screen. Change UseTheme to False in /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and then go to KDE's control centre and set the background image there

Anders Johansson wrote:

On Friday 20 May 2005 15:29, James Knott wrote:

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All that does, is turn off the graphic display during boot up. I am able to change that to something suitable. However, I still get that ugly picture at the boot options

That's the grub 'message' file. Have a look at /boot/message or /etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/bootloader/message, it is a cpio archive. If you unpack it you should be able to see how to change it

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and User/password screens. Is there any way of changing that???

That's the kdm screen. Change UseTheme to False in /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and then go to KDE's control centre and set the background image there

OK, tnx. They sure don't make it easy! Incidentally, one thing I noticed in the message file, is the inclusion of my SCPM profiles. You'd think that if they could so easily add those, it shouldn't be too hard to change the image, without having to resort to cpio.

R Kimber wrote:

On Fri, 20 May 2005 09:29:25 -0400 James Knott wrote:

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Felix Miata wrote:

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James Knott wrote:

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Why is it so difficult to make such a simple change??? What am I missing?

I solve it the same way immediately after every modern Linux install. I edit /boot/grub/menu.txt to replace splash=silent (or whatever splash= is set to) with splash=0. It's a lot easier than mkinitrd.

All that does, is turn off the graphic display during boot up. I am able to change that to something suitable. However, I still get that ugly picture at the boot options and User/password screens. Is there any way of changing that???

http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grub-images/

might be useful

- Richard

tnx