[ale] bootsplash configuration and .spl files?

[lyric hartley]

should have finished checking my email before posting...received an
email from the "suse
guy" mentioned below (whoo hoo!!)...will try what he says and post the
results in case any one is interested (and since the info is a pain to
find)


On 7/25/05, lyric hartley <leeslist at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can generate a new message (and bootlogo) file using the make files
> that come with gfxboot source package from suse and my image.pcx
> file...but it does not show up...I just loose the suse image...if I
> remove the .spl files everything that would have an image is
> black...interesting note is that the meassage file that is there by
> default is just a text file...I can edit with vi and see my changes if
> I do a text mode install...another note, I need to use 9.2...the 9.3
> boot/loader area has some loose .jpgs that you can swap out and get
> mostly there (still have to modify the scripts it uses to do the
> showing of the "welcome" text stuff)....I saw a comment in a syslinux
> changelog that said "added support for reading in <resolution>.spl
> files...image no longer has to be in initrd" the modification was by a
> suse guy in 2003 (?)...but that is all I could find...I have posted to
> the suseautoinstall list but have not heard anything back...I may try
> a hybrid of the 9.2 and 9.3 systems and see what happens
> 
> thanks for your comments!
> 
> On 7/23/05, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> > Jerry Yu wrote:
> > > /boot/message: PCX ver. 3.0 image data bounding box [0, 0] - [319, 199],
> > > 8-bit colour, 300 x 300 dpi, RLE compressed
> > >
> > > /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz is gzipped "X pixmap image text"
> >
> > I find this on RH, but not on SuSE.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 7/20/05, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >>lyric hartley wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>In the boot/loader area of the suse install cd there are files named
> > >>>[resolution].spl (e.g. 08000600.spl) ...they seem to be used for the
> > >>>bootsplash images...I have been looking through the docs for gfxboot,
> > >>>syslinux/isolinux, and bootsplash.org <http://bootsplash.org> but I can
> > >>
> > >>not find any info
> > >>
> > >>>about these files...does anyone know how to edit or create custom
> > >>>replacements for these? or any good how-tos on bootsplash
> > >>>configuration
> > >>
> > >>I vaguely recall that the splash image is contained in /boot/message,
> > >>which is actually a cpio file. Unpack it and see if this is what you're
> > >>looking for. I would suspect that you could simply replace the splash
> > >>image there with what you want, but I've not tried this.
> > >>
> > >>--
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