From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6404 invoked by uid 1002); 17 Jun 2003 23:45:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 25744 invoked from network); 17 Jun 2003 23:45:44 -0000 From: "leon j. breedt" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1055893530.26039.30.camel@ash> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.0 Date: 18 Jun 2003 11:45:31 +1200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [gentoo-dev] GRUB/LILO/syslinux gfxboot X-Archives-Salt: d721ef9d-309a-4da5-bdf3-3a810111fdcb X-Archives-Hash: d10574a55d0087d83b09a877ff18bd1a 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list