Gawd awful boot screen
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. tnx jk
On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:29 am, James Knott wrote:
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.
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:29 am, James Knott wrote:
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:
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:29 am, James Knott wrote:
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?
James Knott wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:29 am, James Knott wrote:
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?
On Thursday 19 May 2005 17:32, James Knott wrote:
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
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 19 May 2005 17:32, James Knott wrote:
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:
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 19 May 2005 17:32, James Knott wrote:
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
The boot splash directory for 9.2 may not be compatible with 9.3. Copy the whole 9.3 theme to a new directory and try replacing the image that bothers you with something else. Use the directory name in /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash and run mk_initrd. There is an RPM package with other themes, bootsplash-theme-SuSE-classic. -- Rafael
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/
Felix Miata wrote:
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.
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???
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:
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
I've never felt compelled to remove that, but I'm sure without a gfxmenu entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst it wouldn't happen, which should give a garden variety grub text menu instead. -- "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/
Anders Johansson wrote:
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
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.
On Fri, 20 May 2005 09:29:25 -0400 James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
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.
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 -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
R Kimber wrote:
On Fri, 20 May 2005 09:29:25 -0400 James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
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.
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
* James Knott (james.knott@rogers.com) [20050519 16:29]:
How can I change it to something that's not so bad? I've tried changing themes,
Rebuild the initrd without grafics by issuing 'mkinitrd -s off' (works until the next kernel update where you have to repeat it). Philipp -- Philipp Thomas <pth@suse.de> Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuremberg, Germany
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