Customizing splash screen logo and boot msg

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Customizing splash screen logo and boot msg
started by: woverin

Posted by woverin on May 06 2004,16:15

Custimizing boot logo
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Requirement
Any image editor eg. Xpaint(comes with DSL), GIMP
lss16toppm and ppmtolss16 syslinux ( apt-get install syslinux)

After you follow meo's remastering howto
you can edit boot splash by

mkdir /mnt/bootimg
mount -rwo loop boot.img /mnt/bootimg
cd /mnt/bootimg
you will see serveral files in here
logo.16 is the file that we need.
However, you can not edit logo.16 directly, you need to convert it to ppm format. You must have lss16toppm and ppmtolss16.

lss16toppm <logo.16> logo.ppm
cp logo.16 /tmp #back up the logo in case you corrupt the file
rm logo.16 #delete the existing one - we'll use the new one
use your favorite image edit to replace the original logo or you can create a new one
the maximum resolution is 640x480
size should not more than 50kb, otherwise it won't work.
16 color
after you finish edit or create a new one, convert it back to .16 format
ppmtolss16 < logo.ppm > logo.16
rm logo.ppm
cd /home/damnsmall
unmount /mnt/bootimg
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Customizing boot message
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mkdir /mnt/bootimg #omit this step if you did the logo customizing
mount -rwo loop boot.img /mnt/bootimg
cd /mnt/bootimg
now look for miniroot.gz
cp miniroot.gz /tmp #in case you mess up
mkdir /mnt/bootmsg
gunzip miniroot.gz
not you should get miniroot
mount -rwo loop /mnt/bootmsg
cd /mnt/bootmsg
scite linuxrc #edit your desired msg and save change.
cd /mnt/bootimg
umount /mnt/bootmsg
gzip miniroot #compress miniroot back
umount /mnt/bootimg

put boot.img back to the newcd/KNOPPIX dir

Posted by lindenle on May 20 2004,23:46

Everytime i try this I can't move miniroot.gz back b/c it says no space left on device.

How do i create the boot.img from the files in there.

Alex