TITLE:		The lfs bootlogo hint
LFS VERSION:	any
AUTHOR:		Martin Imobersteg <imm@gmx.ch>

SYNOPSIS:
	How to get a logo instead of the LILO prompt.

HINT:
The lfs bootlogo hint
(L) 01.03.2001 imm@gmx.ch
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Intro
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With the bootlogo patch from SuSE
you can get a nice logo instead of the
lilo prompt. This patch will help you.

Requirements
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You nead:
 - lilo 21.7 [1]
 - SuSE's bootlogo patch [2]
 - a 640x480 256color pcx graphic [3]

I found the sources of the patch for lilo (should also work 
with 21.6 and 21.6.1) on my SuSE 7.1 source CDs. 
The author is Steffen Winterfeldt <wfeldt@suse.de>

Installation
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Decompress lilo and aply the patch:
$ tar xvzf lilo-21.7.tar.gz
$ bunzip2 lilo-gfx-21.7.patch.bz2
$ cd lilo-21.7
$ patch -i ../lilo-gfx-21.7.patch

Build and install lilo:
$ make
$ su
$ make install

Generate the bootlogo:
$ mklilomsg --logo1 lfsbscreen.pcx 120 20 23 60 290 5 5 4 \
  0x13 000000 111111 000000 > message 
$ cp message /boot

[ Could somebody find out how to use the xor rgb value at the
end of parameters ? It defines the color of the scrollbar
but i got only rubish on my own picture :o( 
mklilomsg.c has also two hidden flags (special and shade) but
none of them won't work for me. ]

Edit /etc/lilo.conf:
lilo.conf should read something like this

boot    = /dev/hde
vga     = normal
read-only
menu-scheme = Wg:kw:Wg:Wg
lba32
prompt
timeout = 80
message = /boot/message

Then start /sbin/lilo and reboot :o)

Disclaimer
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This doc is 100% free.

Download locations:

[1] ftp://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo/lilo-21.7.tar.gz
[2] http://www.linuxnews.ch/alfs/lilo-gfx-21.7.patch.bz2
[3] http://www.linuxnews.ch/alfs/lfsbscreen.pcx

Good luck
imobi
