Mike Williams wrote:
> On Saturday 02 October 2004 11:09, Peter Gaži wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I am using lilo as a boot manager and I dont like the red table
>>bootmenu is defaultly uses. I know that other distros have this
>>improved, even graphical, so is there a way to make it better with
>>gentoo, too?
>
>
> You'll have to create, or get, a new splashimage.
>
> sauron root # file /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz: gzip compressed data, was "splash.xpm", from Unix,
> max compression
> sauron root # cat /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz|gunzip - > splash.xpm
> sauron root # file splash.xpm
> splash.xpm: X pixmap image text
But that's a grub usage. Does it work the same for LiLO, which is what
Peter is asking about?
Also, Peter, did you compile your kernel with Genkernel, or manually? I
get the impression that Genkernel compiles any splash images or color
data into the initrd it creates. If that is the case, and you used it,
you would have to recompile with a new lilo splash image.
At least, that's what I think, looking at the Handbook, since the
lilo.conf example does not contain any settings for the color of the
menu, or a splash image, and that has to be set somewhere.
Sorry to say that I don't use LiLO, but grub, however, if you check out
the LiLO man pages (man lilo, man lilo.conf), you should be able to find
instructions to change the image.
Some links to other lilo themes can be found at
http://www.73lab.com/index.php?menu_item=11&curr_lang=1 (these are for
Debian)
http://kde-look.org/content/search.php?PHPSESSID=5b74647e840dc629a89a9de5166ac89c (type 'lilo splash' in the "name contains" field)
and of course, you can just type 'lilo theme' into a Google search box
to find links to themes you might like.
Hope this helps.
Holly
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