[gentoo-dev] GRUB/LILO/syslinux gfxboot

[gentoo-dev] GRUB/LILO/syslinux gfxboot

[leon j. breedt]

hi,

in addition to the bootsplash done by Sebastian Faubel, how
about Gentoo adds the SuSE gfxboot patches to its GRUB/LILO/syslinux?

this lets you display a graphical menu with an interface of your own
devising instead of the standard GRUB/LILO boot menu. 

i'm not talking about the static image support, but full-on user
interface, with customizable keybindings. if you have the inclination,
you can code it up to do whatever behaviour you want it to.

a screenshot of my own customization for my machines:

http://neverborn.org/xsd-gfxboot-2.png

a screenshot of a tweaked version i did for my Debian installations:

http://neverborn.org/debian-gfx-grub.png

i can assist a real artist in tweaking the image and configuration
needed for this to work. maybe we could use Sebastian's image as a
starting point?

leon




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Re: [gentoo-dev] GRUB/LILO/syslinux gfxboot

[Donny Davies]

>in addition to the bootsplash done by Sebastian Faubel, how
>about Gentoo adds the SuSE gfxboot patches to its GRUB/LILO/syslinux?

  Hi.  I've ported this lilo patch already, you may find it in
the lilo-22.3.4.ebuild.  Install that and try your artwork,
see if it works ok?

  I still use this version currently, as I've not gotten a
proper patch for the latest lilo, though there's a 
contributed one in my buglist; but apparently there's a 
problem with it.

  The thing with grub is, that there's already a VGA16 patch
that I've put in, and it's different from the stuff that
SuSE does to grub.  Some people are attached to it now
as they've cooked up artwork/bootsplashes for it.  It would
take somebody to look into merging it; but I won't as I
don't use grub ;)

          Donny.

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