1 TITLE: The lfs bootlogo hint
3 AUTHOR: Martin Imobersteg <imm@gmx.ch>
6 How to get a logo instead of the LILO prompt.
10 (L) 01.03.2001 imm@gmx.ch
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16 With the bootlogo patch from SuSE
17 you can get a nice logo instead of the
18 lilo prompt. This patch will help you.
25 - SuSE's bootlogo patch [2]
26 - a 640x480 256color pcx graphic [3]
28 I found the sources of the patch for lilo (should also work
29 with 21.6 and 21.6.1) on my SuSE 7.1 source CDs.
30 The author is Steffen Winterfeldt <wfeldt@suse.de>
35 Decompress lilo and aply the patch:
36 $ tar xvzf lilo-21.7.tar.gz
37 $ bunzip2 lilo-gfx-21.7.patch.bz2
39 $ patch -i ../lilo-gfx-21.7.patch
41 Build and install lilo:
46 Generate the bootlogo:
47 $ mklilomsg --logo1 lfsbscreen.pcx 120 20 23 60 290 5 5 4 \
48 0x13 000000 111111 000000 > message
51 [ Could somebody find out how to use the xor rgb value at the
52 end of parameters ? It defines the color of the scrollbar
53 but i got only rubish on my own picture :o(
54 mklilomsg.c has also two hidden flags (special and shade) but
55 none of them won't work for me. ]
58 lilo.conf should read something like this
63 menu-scheme = Wg:kw:Wg:Wg
67 message = /boot/message
69 Then start /sbin/lilo and reboot :o)
74 This doc is 100% free.
78 [1] ftp://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo/lilo-21.7.tar.gz
79 [2] http://www.linuxnews.ch/alfs/lilo-gfx-21.7.patch.bz2
80 [3] http://www.linuxnews.ch/alfs/lfsbscreen.pcx