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awkandsed
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 Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2002 5:34 am Post subject: Lilo graphical login screen |
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To my understanding, lilo can accept interactive (w/ login prompt) boot screens, in PCX format, up to 256 colors in either 320x200, 640x400 and in newer versions 640x480.
I've created a boot screen and I've found a Gimp script which saves the file in the correct format. Will a normal PCX file work w/ it w/o running the Gimp. There was also a C program I'd come across a while ago but I cannot find it.
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lanius
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The standard lilo is only accepting BMP Images with 16 Colors, but there are several hacks by suse or redhat around, which use other formats. For the standard see /usr/share/doc/lilo-22.3.3-r1/README.bitmaps.gz 
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JanErik
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hmm... Still prefer the old-style single line.
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awkandsed
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Thanks for the link, heino, I never would have found it otherwise. I like the classical login screen as well " login: " , but I must say, I would like a fancier one. I want a nice looking boot up screen and make the system overall look nicer. I am definately not going for a Windows look, just more of a personal touch.  |
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ronmon
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| Heh, this reminded me of an article on Slashdot a while back so I found it in a quick search. This guy not only hacked images and animation, he put in a a game of breakout. Hopefully you didn't have to win to be able to boot :-) |
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_SkeLeToN_
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Well from this link http://www.gamers.org/~quinet/lilo/index.html I was able to make the penguins boot screen works.
You need framebuffer to make it work btw ... I use vesa and works great.
As for the image itself its a PCX format and if you google a little bit I found a page were they explain how to make animated boot screen or just a simple image with you choice of OS.
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I found the page where they explain how to do it : http://www.13thfloor.at/Software/lilo-splash/Example/
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