Re: [Etherboot-developers] Splashimage / Bootlogo

[Michael B. <mb...@fe...>]

On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, devzero wrote:
> i'm looking for an option in etherboot that i can have splashscreen/bootlogo
> when booting from the net.
> Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be "inside" etherboot - searched the mailinglist
> archive for that.
> Could you give me further hints ?
> I`m concerned with project "netstation" and we would like to  have some "eyecandy"
> when booting from the net. that could give bigger audience ;)
> To include bootlogo in kernel (LPP / fblogo /fbcon) is a bad option, because bootlogo just
> would be "viewable" half of the boot-time and to customize - netstation users would have
> to recompile kernel......
> I could think of etherboot downloading splashimage/bootlogo via tftp and display
> that, while further booting is going on...

This feature already exists: see ppmtoansi in contribs and the vendortags
documentation.  I'm using it to provide a graphical splash-screen bootmenu
already: you can see the results in the "jumpwire" package downloadable
from www.fensystems.co.uk/[S]RPMs.  A word of warning: don't use jumpwire
"as is"; it's proof-of-concept code and choosing option "D" from the boot
menu *will* destroy /dev/hdb1...

Michael Brown
http://www.fensystems.co.uk
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