On Thursday, 09 May 2002 16:28:11 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:

On Thursday 09 May 2002 16:22, Tom Nielsen wrote:

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I checked my boot.log last night and came up with this when trying to load the splash screen:

<6>vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe4000000, mapped to 0xe080d000, size 32768k <6>vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=9 <6>vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:7d40 <6>vesafb: scrolling: redraw <6>vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 <6>Looking for splash picture... no good signature found. <4>Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 <6>fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device

What really caught my eye was the "no good signature found" part. What's that mean? Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

It means it couldn't find a splash image in your initrd, so it reverted to the builtin penguin in the top-left corner. You do see that, don't you?

If you do a mk_initrd, don't you get a message "Concatenating splash image"?

Hmmm, interesting. Ever since I've been compiling my own kernels, the boot splash hasn't worked for me either. However, my situation is slightly different than the one above. I DO get the "Concatenating splash picture size 1280x1024 to initrd... done." message at the end of the mk_initrd run. However, there is no mention of splash anything in the boot.msg file. The relevant msgs in my boot.msg file are like those above with the exception that I'm using 24-bit 0:8:8:8 directcolor vs. the 16-bit 0:5:6:5 directcolor above and there is no "<6>Looking for splash picture..." line. I'd like to get it working also, though not urgently. Mostly I'm just curious why it doesn't work. Some day I may install a custom splash screen. Thanks! Phil -- Philip A. Saeli SuSE Linux 7.3 psaeli@zorodyne.com