Boot Splash?

Hi,

Does anyone know how to add a boot-splash screen to a Linux distribution (mainly JLime). The idea is to make a newbie-friendly version, and the boot-up display is a bit intimindating for new users.

Any ideas?

It's certainly possible to do it, I have seen them before many many times. I managed to find this guide on adding one to LiLo:
http://home.arcor.de/tbleicher/linux/bootlogo.html

Well I do not know about the bootsplash project but a new boot splash project called "splashy" might work. It only requires you to use a FB driver and the rest is done with a kernel service. However I do not know if it can be compiled for non-x86 platforms....but it might.

Splashy Project

I've played with bootsplash, as i use gentoo, and i got to add my own bootsplash bar to the distro, so it's certainly possible, as long as the binaries can be ported to ARM. the rest of the infrastructure for bootsplash support is built in the kernel fb driver, so if you see a little tux in the top-left corner when you boot, then most of the work is already done.

Tux is in the corner, so thats a good sign.

Thanks for the help...

Dig around on forums.gentoo.org, they have numerous things listed for bootsplash and other eyecandy (progressbar at startup, framebuffer background on the console etc.

Snickersmd and I have been bickering a bit on this one. BootSplash looks good, but would need to be rewritten to use our framebuffer. The gpe one needs gtk, which drives me crazy.

Splashy? Neither of us have checked that out yet..