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furiousV · 03-21-2006, 05:56 PM

Hi

A few months ago, I have upgraded this computer which had SUSE 9.1 Personal to SUSE 10.0 (One that I got with a book, I think it is OpenSUSE).

What I want to know is, how I would make it so I get that nice blue Booting screen with the circular dotted progress bar
Right now, I get the black screen with it listing out everything is loading saying OK or FAILED (none fail I don't think)

It would be nice for the main PC to have more eye-candy when booting it up than look all . . . geeky

The upgrade was not a re-install or format or anything, it was the Upgrade option

Thanks in advance

Simon Bridge · 03-21-2006, 06:25 PM

It's been a while, but I think the solution is in your bootloader configuration file... there will be a line pointing to the boot splash image, and one saying "splash=no" or similar. Comment out the splash=no line.

furiousV · 03-24-2006, 05:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simon Bridge

It's been a while, but I think the solution is in your bootloader configuration file... there will be a line pointing to the boot splash image, and one saying "splash=no" or similar. Comment out the splash=no line.

Thanks for responding

Unfortunately, I don't think that did the trick

I ran the Control Center and went to System then Boot, there was something in the kernel parameters like splash=no, I tried taking it out, switching it to yes, no luck.

The grub setup for SUSE 10 is rather . . . . weird, nothing like Fedora Core (where it was much much simpler), there are lots of files, and you kinda have to use yast do edit it.

I still only see the black screen with loading this loading that, OK and OK, loading ethernet with IP address.

Any more ideas?

abisko00 · 03-24-2006, 06:49 AM

In /boot/grub/menu.lst, search for the parameter 'splash=' and edit this to 'splash=silent'. But I assume that this is already set and the bootsplash image needs to be updated (ususally happens after a resolution change). To do this, run 'mkinitrd' as root.

furiousV · 03-24-2006, 09:07 AM

Just back after rebooting, and still no luck

I edited /boot/grub/menu.lst and since 'splash=' wasn't there, I added in splash=silent , saved and ran mkinitrd (a root of course, ran successfully, but this might be of interest -

Quote:

Bootsplash: no theme selected
7432 blocks

Maybe the problem lies there?

This is a part of the menu.lst file

Quote:

title SUSE LINUX 10.0
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 vga=828 selinux=0 resume=/dev/hdb2 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd

Again thanks for helping

abisko00 · 03-24-2006, 09:17 AM

Check /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash. Should look like this:

Code:

## Path:	System/Boot
## Description:	selects bootsplash graphics theme
## Type:	string
## Default:	SuSE
# Choose the bootsplash theme. It should be based in
# /etc/bootsplash/themes/
THEME="SuSE"
## Path:	System/Boot
## Description:	enables/disables bootup graphics
## Type:	yesno
## Default:	yes
#
# SPLASH can be set to "no" to turn off the splash-screen on console 1
# at boot time (after kernel load).
#
# SPLASH=no to disable the splash screen
#
# SPLASH=yes to show the splash screen
#
SPLASH="yes"

Next, check if the theme is installed in /etc/bootsplash/themes/. If not, install bootsplash-theme-SuSE.

I am not sure if this matters, but the vga= parameter is hexadecimal on my system (I think this changed during transition to the 2.6 kernel). Try vga=0x33C. But this value is not listed in the kernel documentation and I think there may be no suitable splash image existing. Try to use one of the parameters from the table below. Don't forget to run mkinitrd after you've changed something.

Code:

    | 640x480  800x600  1024x768 1280x1024
----+-------------------------------------
256 |  0x301    0x303    0x305    0x307   
32k |  0x310    0x313    0x316    0x319   
64k |  0x311    0x314    0x317    0x31A   
16M |  0x312    0x315    0x318    0x31B

furiousV · 03-24-2006, 10:16 AM

I think I found the problem
In the /etc/bootsplash/themes directory was 'SuSE'

but /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash said

THEME="SuSE-Home"

I changed that to "SuSE" and mkinitrd , which now gives

Code:

Root device:    /dev/hdb1 (mounted on / as ext3)
Module list:    sis5513 processor thermal fan jbd ext3

Kernel image:   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.13-15-default
Initrd image:   /boot/initrd-2.6.13-15-default
Shared libs:    lib/ld-2.3.5.so lib/libblkid.so.1.0 lib/libc-2.3.5.so lib/libcom_err.so.2.1 lib/libext2fs.so.2.4 lib/libselinux.so.1 lib/libuuid.so.1.2

Driver modules: ide-disk sis5513 processor thermal fan
Filesystem modules:     jbd ext3
Including:      klibc initramfs udev fsck.ext3
Bootsplash:     SuSE (1024x768)
7605 blocks

But it still doesn't show the bootsplash screen. I also tried removing the splash=silent part on menu.lst, no luck there either. Does many a differetn command need to be run, since I am booting of the MBR

abisko00 · 03-24-2006, 10:19 AM

Did you change the vga setting in menu.lst? Because the bootsplash is set to 1024x768, which corresponds to e.g. vga=0x317.

furiousV · 03-24-2006, 10:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by abisko00

Did you change the vga setting in menu.lst? Because the bootsplash is set to 1024x768, which corresponds to e.g. vga=0x317.

Done, also added 'splash=silent' back in and it works great! Thanks alot for your help

Only thing left is to get it on-center, quite a bit of black on the left, I think thats down to the system-set refresh rate, which I think is 87Hz, my own desktop is on 85Hz which sorts it all out.

But thanks alot for helping me to get the splash image working

Simon Bridge · 03-25-2006, 04:15 AM

Let's see...
To enable a missing bootsplash:

in /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash.conf
... set the theme
... note the resolution of the theme

in /etc/bootsplash/themes
... check the theme is installed

in /boot/grub/menue.lst
... add kernel option: bootsplash=silent

run mkinitrd

reboot

It occurs to me there would be something you can do with YaST for this - install bootsplash theme or something? Like with regular desktop themes?