March 2005
Beginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
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Chapter 1, Booting Linux
#4 Set a Bitmap Boot Screen for LILO
HACK
HACK
#4
Set a Bitmap Boot Screen for LILO Hack #4
You can have a splash screen for just about everything these days, including
your bootloader.
Most people use either the time-honored LInux LOader (LILO), or the
GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB). This hack shows you how to download
a LILO splash screen and configure it to appear with LILO when you boot
your machine. This hack assumes your video card supports VESA frame
buffers that will render a 255-color, 640x480 graphics screen in bitmap for-
mat (practically every decent graphics card made in the last several years
works). It is not necessary to configure your Linux kernel to support frame
buffers. When LILO displays the splash screen, the Linux kernel isn’t loaded
yet, so LILO cannot depend on the kernel for frame-buffer support.
On the other hand, this hack works nicely with all the other frame-buffer
hacks, such as “Jazz Up Your Debian System Boot”
[Hack #8] and “Scrap X11
for Fancy Login Consoles”
[Hack #20], so you might want to combine all these
hacks to get the most out of your card’s frame-buffer support.
You won’t find a cornucopia of preconfigured LILO splash screens on the
Internet, but a few do exist. Most of the downloads include a README file
that includes instructions on the lines you need to add to lilo.conf to make
the LILO boot splash work. Some of the URLs listed ...
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