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EnterTheLinux - lilo/grub splash screen

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Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net

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Description:

It's a nice grafical splash screen for LiLo.

It reproduces the Matrix movie scene in which Morpheus gives the 2 pills to Neo. In the movie Morpheus says: "Remember...all I'm offering is the truth. Noting else." offering the pills to Neo.
"Free your mind" is the phrase that Neo says before jump.

Is it cool, isn't it?

HOW TO INSTALL: see the readme-install_xx.txt file inside the .zip file.

***IMPORTANT!!!******************
For version 0.2 (current): I changed the position of the text "Free your mind in: " and some color. So you have to use the configuration lines that other_color.txt contain.
*****************

***PLEASE LEFT YOUR FEEDBACK (AND A COMMENT)!!!***

Coming (not so ^_^) soon:
- grub version & howto
- green version

Last changelog:

12 years ago

Hisory:
11/03/2004: fixed language bugs in english readme.

01/03/2004: upload version 0.2 change the image an the lilo.config lines.

29/02/2004: after dinner watching Mai Dire Domenica...udated descripion and added the italian and english readme-install.txt file into the zip file.

29/02/2004: not so early morning...uploaded the .zip file. Put the "how_to_install" in this section. (last night I was so drunk I forgot to upload the archive file, damn :-))

29/2/2004: very late... opened this page

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spiff
16 years ago

ehi! looks cool!

kmeehl
16 years ago

Morpheus actually says "Remmeber...all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more." (rather than Nothing else.)
I have made a corrected bmp which can be found at http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/kmeehl/handy_128.bmp

Secondly, the color settings will work only on lilo 22.5.8 and up, so anyone running 22.5.7 will have to upgrade.

Finally, cool idea for a boot image. I likie. =)

-kM

-renegade-
16 years ago

Mandrake 10:

don't change anything in lilo.conf

just type:

# lilo-bmp2mdk mode:0x101 \
timer:450,10,0,25 \
entry:336,470,64+127,15,13,54 \
< handy_128bis.bmp > /boot/message-graphic
# lilo
# reboot

nice work

vrinek502
16 years ago

I use mandrake 10.0 community (LILO version 22.5.8).

I had to change:
install=/boot/boot-bmp.b
with:
install=bmp

REALLY nice
Some green matrix code would fit in nicely I think.

BuzzRenovator
16 years ago

What exactly, did you do to make this work in MDK 10 ? I can't get it to work yet.

Could you post the instructions to editing Lilo?

Regards and thank in advance....

electronkz
16 years ago

I have the following error:
Fatal : Unsupported bitmap
My LILO: LILO version 22.5.7.2
Mandrake 9.2
Plz help

pippo2
16 years ago

I have Mdk 9.1 + lilo 22.4.1 and I resolved in this way:

# cd /boot>
# cp message-graphic message-graphic.old
# lilo-bmp2mdk mode:0x103 \
timer:450,10,0,25 \
entry:340,470,64+127,15,13,54 \
< handy_128.bmp > message-graphic
# lilo
# reboot

Hope this helps you !!

Ciao

Diznario
16 years ago

You know what would be perfect with this...

Change the LILO boot menu to look like this:

Take the red pill
Take the blue pill

Anyone know how to bust this out? LILO doesn't seem to like spaces in the menu names. =(

Diznario
16 years ago

Awesome bootscreen! I think I'm gonna be using this one for a while.

FYI, if anyone wants more of a clean and simple selection text, try these settings:

bmp-colors=11,0,0,25,0,11 # text color

xstranger
16 years ago

My lilo talk to me this message:

"Unsupported bitmap"

What can I do?

spiff
16 years ago

You can tell us which distro and lilo version you are using...

xstranger
16 years ago

I have ALTLinux Sisyphus and LILO v22.4.1 installed. I've tried to use 22.5.8 and now it works OK. Thanx for greatfull bootsplash :)

electronkz
16 years ago

How did you make it go???

Tanarchy
16 years ago

im the whole time getting this
"Added Mandrake9.2
Added Win98SE
Fatal: Default image doesn't exist."

what is wrong?

and this is the lilo

boot="/dev/hda"
map=/boot/map
vga="791"
lba32
default="Windows"
keytable=/boot/us-latin1.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout="100"
#message/boot/messagep
bitmap=/root/Desktop/splash/handy_128.bmp
bmp-colors=6,9,0:15,9,0
bmp-table=114p,347p,2,7
bmp-timer=66,29,6,8,0

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="Mandrake9.2"
root=/dev/hda6
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off"
read-only

other=/dev/hda1
label="Win98SE"
table=/dev/hda

please help

spiff
16 years ago

In deed... default="Windows" must be the same of label="Win98SE"...

default="Windows"
label="Windows"

OR

default="Win98SE"
label="Win98SE"

default means that lilo starts with the default label. but the label "Windows" doesn't exist, so it returns an error...

stay cool!

ZIOlele
16 years ago

[it]
Perch

spiff
16 years ago

[it]
purtroppo (for voi) io non ho fatto l'immagine delle mani. in verità ho rielaborato l'immagine originale per poterla usare con lilo, configurato il lilo.conf e aggiunto le scritte.

...ho solo avuto una buona idea: nessuna abilità speciale...

[eng]
unlucky (for you) the original image wasn't made by me. all I did is adating the origianl jpg for lilo, writing my lilo.conf and adding the text "Remember...bla bla bla"

I only had a good idea: no special skills...

spiff
16 years ago

A lot of people aked me about it. This is my lilo.conf:

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vga=791
lba32
boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hda7
#install=/boot/boot-menu.b
install=/boot/boot-bmp.b
bitmap=/home/spiff1281/Desktop/EnterTheLinux/handy_128bis.bmp # Il percorso del nostro sfondo
bmp-colors=38,0,53,112,38,25 # Sono i colori del testo
bmp-table=114p,347p,2,7 # Questa indica la posizione delle nostre label sullo sfondo
bmp-timer=470p,336p,25,0,11 # La posizione del tempo
map=/boot/map
delay=20
prompt
timeout=150
append="hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi apm=power-off nomce"
default=Linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.24-xfs
label=Linux
initrd=/boot/initrd.gz
read-only
image=/vmlinuz.old
label=LinuxOLD
read-only
optional
other=/dev/hda1
label="Windows"

deadlove75
16 years ago

Hell-o,

This took a bit for me to get working. I'm using Mandrake 9.2.

I had to edit the included settings to match the name of the included BMP file.

I had to change

message=/boot/message

to

# message=/boot/message

And the included bmp-colors and bmp-timer settings caused an error.

I had to change them to:

bmp-colors=6,9,0;15,9,0

and

bmp-timer=66,29,6,8,0

I got those settings from a webpage that detailed how to make a boot splash. I couldn't get one working using their directions though.

However, if I took an image, made it 640 x 480, reduced it (in GIMP, right click the image, select Image, then Mode, then Indexed, put 16 in number of colors, select No Dithering, then save as a BMP with RLE Encoding selected) to 16 colors, I was able to substitute my own image.

I can now make my own boot splashes. Thanks so much.

Blessed Be,

Jason Hodges

zorek
16 years ago

could you please post your lilo.conf to zorek_s at hotmail.com? I cant get it working.. thanks!

Sudonix
16 years ago

Finally, a nice idea and a proper implementation :) Thank you!

zorek
16 years ago

That looks great! But i cant set it up in Mandrake 9.2. In lilo.conf there are no line that says: #install=/boot/boot-menu.b
and there are no such file on my harddrive eather? Anyone knows how to do this? Thanks for this pic anyway! :)

spiff
16 years ago

Because mandrake has the grafical setting by defualt. Check if there is the follow line:

install=/boot/boot-bmp.b

It is enought to enable the graphical version.

zorek
16 years ago

No there are no such line eather :(
this is mu lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
default="linux"
keytable=/boot/se-latin1.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda7 splash=silent"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda7"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda7 failsafe"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hda

can someone help me please?

darkbrain
16 years ago

Very nice, but you should place Linux on the Left hand :)

bye,
DarkBrain

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12 years ago

Hisory:
11/03/2004: fixed language bugs in english readme.

01/03/2004: upload version 0.2 change the image an the lilo.config lines.

29/02/2004: after dinner watching Mai Dire Domenica...udated descripion and added the italian and english readme-install.txt file into the zip file.

29/02/2004: not so early morning...uploaded the .zip file. Put the "how_to_install" in this section. (last night I was so drunk I forgot to upload the archive file, damn :-))

29/2/2004: very late... opened this page

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