HOWTO: Spice up your boot text [font resolution and color]

[skyboy]

Nice trick, thanks
.. it's useless but I love those

[Heliode]

Cool, thanks! I was looking for something like this since I switched from Gentoo, which basically had this.

Slightly related; Any idea how you get a tux-penguin in the top of the screen for the number of processors you have right after the kernel is loaded? (Like Gentoo and Knoppix do?)

[dudinatrix]

Glad you guys like it! Like the post above me, I'd also like to have the Tux graphic at the top. Useless tweaks are my favorite. If I figure it out I'll post it here.. but if anyone else can do it, let us know how!

Hi--
I'm a PPC user (yaboot instead of grub)--I look at my .conf and it is "similar" to yours--
Question--Do you think that changing the line--

append="quiet splash" to append="quiet splash vga=792"

might work or bork my .conf? (check the init message and fgcolor-- thats why I'm interested)

I'm not a PPC user, so take what I say with a grain of salt. It looks like what you suggested will work. If nothing changes, try vga=791. Worst case scenario, if it doesn't boot, just get into recovery mode and change the .conf back and you should be fine. Good luck!

[minio]

For rsolution and colour depth i found this HOWTO. When you scroll the page down you will found table of kernel mode numbers for the 'vga=' parameter. It is for gentoo but i think it should work for Ubuntu also.

[autocrosser]

Well--I tried append="quiet splash vga=792" , append="quiet spash vga=791"---no luck--booted fine (and normal)--then I tried adding the line append="vga=792" , append="vga=791"---still no luck.... O- PPC boots with the penguin logo in the top bar area--I'm a dual 1G system--so I have two


I'll take a look at the Gentoo info--I've used their site before--tried to install the 2004.3 release--never worked well for me

(edit)--took a quick look at the Gentoo info--looks like what I need--at work right now, so I'll work with on it this evening!!

Thanks for all the input!!!

Cheers!!
Dean

[matthew]

Hi--
I'm a PPC user (yaboot instead of grub)--I look at my .conf and it is "similar" to yours--
Question--Do you think that changing the line--

append="quiet splash" to append="quiet splash vga=792"

might work or bork my .conf? (check the init message and fgcolor-- thats why I'm interested)

Here is the complete yaboot--

I think that should work, but just to be safe I would advise that you first backup your yaboot.conf file before changing the line. Then try it. If anything goes wrong you can change back to the backed up version.

[cutOff]

Nice trick, thanks
.. it's useless but I love those

I agree.

Thanks a lot for the tip!

[FLeiXiuS]

This was very awesome, I grew up with RedHat and loved the colorful boot. Ever since that, every other distro out there didn't use it. I'm guessing users found it blinding? But I liked it. Thanks.

The only problems I have had was with the resolution / tux logo. Ubuntu hasn't seemd to like a really high resolution. On the other hand, knoppix loved it . I'll figure it out..

[danf_1979]

I got plenty of problems with vga=792 and vga=791. For example when I reached gnome I would click on a menu and see nothing, then pass my mouse over the invisible menu and it would appear. Same with desktop icons. There were no icons on my desktop until y passed my mouse over them...
3dfx voodoo3 here... 1024*768 max res in xorg.

[autocrosser]

Well--I tried the Gentoo info--added a line vga=0x317 still no change. I guess I'm going to look at a boot splash--either splashy (have seen some good info on the Breezy forum) or work with the info from http://www.bootsplash.org/

I really like the verbose mode pic in the main page!!!
( http://www.bootsplash.org/verbose-mode.jpg )

If I find info on how to change the yaboot.conf--I'll post them here---

Cheers!!
Dean