[Splashy-devel] Splash during kernel startup

Eric Moret eric.moret at gmail.com
Wed Jan 24 18:14:44 CET 2007


 

> > I read in the "About Splashy" page on the wiki that splashy 
> requires 
> > zero kernel patches to be fully functional. I am trying to 
> get splashy 
> > match the gensplash feature of displaying an image while the kernel 
> > boots up. How can this be done without a kernel patch?
> 
> Depends on what distro you're using. Debian derived distro's 
> should work out of the box.
> 
> Basically you should start-up splashy early during boot and 
> tell it to update the progress bar from your init scripts. In 
> systems that follow the LSB you can do that by hooking in the 
> lsb_end_msg functions.
> 
> The README should get you going. If you have detailed 
> questions, you can ask them here.

Yes, I have followed the README and it does work fine for me once the kernel
is started. Now, what I want is to get a splash screen at the time the
kernel boots up and before it starts the init process like gensplash or
fbsplash do.

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Eric




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