[mythtv-users] Knoppmyth boot screen and desktop pic

james meyer james.meyer at operamail.com
Tue Feb 21 19:02:03 UTC 2006


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Dorsey" <info at dorseygraphics.com>
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Knoppmyth boot screen and desktop pic
> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:40:29 -0800
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 21, 2006, at 9:41 AM, yan seiner wrote:
> 
> > Steve Dorsey wrote:
> >
> >> Hello
> >>
> >>   Where is the KnoppMyth boot screen and desktop pic? I'd like to
> >> replace them.
> >>
> >>
> > I'm with you on that...  I need a budding artist...  The latest
> > KnoppMyth is very nice, but that bootsplash graphic blows chunks.   (For
> > now my Knop upgrade plans are on hold; my main myth partition took a
> > dump yesterday so I am restoring some 200 GB of files off a USB drive
> > mounted via NFS.......  Can you say S....L...O...W...)
> >
> > Look in /etc/lilo.conf; there should be a bootsplash entry telling you
> > which file it is.
> >
> > --Yan
> 
> 
> I'm not seeing anything that refers to a boot or desktop picture in
> the lilo.conf file. Where should I look?
> 
> --------S
The files are located in /etc/bootsplash.

Please note that you cannot simply changeout the graphics and expect it to work.  The graphics must be of a certain format and then appended to the initial ram disk.
www.bootsplash.org  has more details.






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