boot logo

whiteghost · Guru Joined: 26 Jul 2009 Posts: 374 Location: north dakota

does anyone have a boot logo working?

i haven't had one for a very long time.

i enable it in kernel, have tried different kernels.

thought grub2 might have something to do with it so tried switching back to grub 1,

my .config

http://paste.pocoo.org/show/587940/
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audiodef · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 3:27 pm Post subject:

You need Device Drivers -> Graphics support -> Bootup logo -> Standard 224-color Linux logo.

If that's not working, try setting up a kernel seed. In addition to being configured for boot logos, kernel seeds give you a more efficient kernel than make defconfig.
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BillWho · Veteran Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 1600 Location: US

whiteghost,

I have an old dell 4700 using i915 for Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller.

In order to get the boot logo I had to compile the driver in the kernel. When it was compiled as a module I never got the logo or initial boot messages.
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audiodef · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 4:31 pm Post subject:

I always compile my video drivers into the kernel and I've never not had a boot logo.
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whiteghost · Guru Joined: 26 Jul 2009 Posts: 374 Location: north dakota

i do use a kernel seed from pappy, except for genkernel which i just tried to see if it helped with logo.

i do have logo option compiled in
my zen kernel

audiodef · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:05 pm Post subject:

I have grub-0.97-r10.
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:36 pm Post subject:

whiteghost,

Please pastebin your dmesg.

You must use a framebuffer console to get a boot logo. You have both the old text vga console and the vesa framebffer console in your kernel.
dmesg will tell which is being used. You may need some kernel parameters on the kernel line in grub too. I use

whiteghost · Guru Joined: 26 Jul 2009 Posts: 374 Location: north dakota

hi neddy,

my dmesg
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/588095/

added this in kernel line awhile back but it did not help

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:31 pm Post subject:

whiteghost,

whiteghost · Guru Joined: 26 Jul 2009 Posts: 374 Location: north dakota

i wish i could tell what i did to fix it. i've tried so many things ... i'm not sure what i did.

i now have boot logo.

one thing i now have is vga= in kernel line. will not work without it. [for me] thought i had tried with vga= a couple months ago.

supposedly the vga= is deprecated in grub2.

i would like to compare my new .config with old, but seems pastebin [pocoo], where my old file resides is out of business.

thanks for replies.
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cach0rr0 · Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 2:07 am Post subject:

Nicias · Guru Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Posts: 446

I recently got a bootsplash working, I think.

I have a nice grub background, then I pick my kernel and I get text running up the screen for a second or two, then two penguins, then more text for a few seconds, then once open-rc gets a few services started, I have a nice graphical progress bar.

I'm mostly satisfied, but I'm wondering if I can do more to hide those two steps of text scrolling? I assume I would have to use an initramfs or whatever (I currently don')

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 2:57 pm Post subject:

Nicias,

Yes and no to your initrd.

To get bootsplash on the console before root is mounted, you need some odds and ends of bootsplach related things in the intrd.
However, you can still boot with the initrd missing if you configure your kernel correctly - you just loose bootsplash.
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Nicias · Guru Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Posts: 446

Thanks for the quick reply. If the cost of sooner bootsplash is an initrd, I'll put it aside for now.