rate this article:
current rating: average rating: 1.0 (2 votes) (1=very good 6=terrible)
Your rating:
Very good (1) Good (2) ok (3) average (4) bad (5) terrible (6)

back
Please read "Why adblockers are bad".



from small one page howto to huge articles all in one place
 

search text in:




Other .linuxhowtos.org sites: www.linuxhowtos.org
toolsntoys.linuxhowtos.org



Last additions:
How to make X listen on port 6000

How to make X listen on port 6000

words:

34

views:

9271

userrating:

no votes yet


May, 25th 2007:
April, 26th 2007:
Apr, 10th. 2007:
Druckversion . pdf icon
You are here: Tips&Tricks

Bootup with the Gentoo 2006.0 logo

When you boot from the 2006.0 LiveCD you see an awesome Gentoo bootlogo and progress-bar -- and you wish you could impress your friends with it during your usual bootup? Here we go:

Note: splashutils only work on x86 and amd64 architectures perfectly at the moment. Support for ppc is in progress.

Check your kernel-config to make sure that "Initial RAM disk (initrd) support" is built in. You can find the option in "Device Drivers" --> "Block devices" --> "RAM disk support".

Furthermore check that you are using an appropriate framebuffer for your video-card ("Graphics Support") or stick with the VESA-framebuffer. Usually splashutils should do the checks during the emerge-progress, but we want to be sure. Now tell your bootloader that it should load the initrd with the 2006.0-splash: The reccomended way is Device drivers/Graphic support/support for bla bla/VESA vga/vesafb-tng. Check it is vesafb-tng and not only vesafb|-

(x86 only I guess) As well you need Device drivers/Graphic support/console display.../video mod && framebuffer console... DO NOT click boot logo

Then we need to emerge splashutils and splash-themes-livecd:

Code Listing 1: emerge splashutils and splash-themes-livecd

# emerge splash-themes-livecd 
splashutils is a dependency of splash-themes-livecd

Now we have to create an initial boot-disk. You are free to change the resolution to your choice, but choose one that is available as a config file in /etc/splash/livecd-2006.0/

Code Listing 2: Creation of an initrd with the 2006.0-splash

Be sure that /boot is mounted before you call the command 
# splash_geninitramfs -v -g /boot/splash-livecd-2006.0-1024x768 \ 
  -r 1024x768 /etc/splash/livecd-2006.0

Code Listing 3: Configure the bootloader

# nano -w /boot/grub/grub.conf
First change your kernel-boot-line to something like this (depends on 
your used framebuffer and further kernel-parameters): 
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.16-r6 root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:1024x768-32@72 
  splash=silent,theme:livecd-2006.0 quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 
You must use more than 8bpp (in this example it is 32, 
specified by 1024x768-32@72).

Add the following line to your kernel-config:

initrd /boot/splash-livecd-2006.0-1024x768

Now we have that nice bootup-splash installed. Finally we want a permanent Gentoo statusbar at the bottom of our terminal-session, like on the LiveCD. Therefore we have to change the default theme in /etc/splash:

Code Listing 4: Change the default splash

# cd /etc/splash 
# rm default 
# ln -s livecd-2006.0 default

This splash should be started after bootup has finished:

Code Listing 5: Add splash to the default runlevel

# rc-update add splash default

If you want to finetune the splash-theme, you should have a look at /etc/conf.d/splash. Happy Gentooing!

Thanks to Michael Januszewski for his work on splashutils and Nicholas D. Wolfwood for the 2006.0-theme.

From http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20050418-newsletter.xml Updated by petr.fiala&&gmail.com /*just fuck spam*/ 29.6.2006 hope it helps and again big thx to Michael Januszewski

P.S. emerge bootsplash-themes for more themes than just the install logo.

other Ads
Stellenangebote
Stellenangebote
für Fach- und
Führungskräfte
www.nachoben.com
Trace My Cash
Wenn Sie sich schon immer mal gefragt haben, wo eigentlich Ihr geliebtes Bargeld geblieben ist, finden Sie hier vielleicht die Antwort.
www.tracemycash.com
Other free services
toURL.org
Shorten long
URLs to short
links like
http://tourl.org/2
tourl.org
.
FeedCollector
Combine various newsfeeds to one customized webpage
www.feedcollector.org
.
Reverse DNS lookup
Find out which hostname(s)
resolve to a
given IP or other hostnames for the server
www.reversednslookup.org

New Packages

- as rdf newsfeed
- as rss newsfeed
- as Atom newsfeed
2010-09-03
bchunk - 1.2.0-r1
Ebuild name:

app-cdr/bchunk-1.2.0-r1

Description

Converts bin/cue CD-images to iso+wav/cdr

Added to portage

2010-09-03

corosync - 1.2.8
Ebuild name:

sys-cluster/corosync-1.2.8

Description

OSI Certified implementation of a complete cluster engine

Added to portage

2010-09-03

global - 5.9.2-r1
Ebuild name:

dev-util/global-5.9.2-r1

Description

GNU Global is a tag system to find the locations of a specified object in

Added to portage

2010-09-03

gradm - 2.2.0.201008292125
Ebuild name:

sys-apps/gradm-2.2.0.201008292125

Description

Administrative interface for the grsecurity Role Based Access Con

Added to portage

2010-09-03

hardened-sources - 2.6.32-r15
Ebuild name:

sys-kernel/hardened-sources-2.6.32-r15

Description

Hardened kernel sources (kernel series .)

Added to portage

2010-09-03

hardened-sources - 2.6.34-r3
Ebuild name:

sys-kernel/hardened-sources-2.6.34-r3

Description

Hardened kernel sources (kernel series .)

Added to portage

2010-09-03

kiwix - 0.9_alpha6
Ebuild name:

app-text/kiwix-0.9_alpha6

Description

A ZIM reader, especially for offline web content retrieved from Wikipedia

Added to portage

2010-09-03

lftp - 4.0.10
Ebuild name:

net-ftp/lftp-4.0.10

Description

A sophisticated ftp/sftp/http/https/torrent client and file transfer program

Added to portage

2010-09-03

nagios - 3.2.2
Ebuild name:

net-analyzer/nagios-3.2.2

Description

The Nagios metapackage - merge this to pull install all of the nagios pac

Added to portage

2010-09-03

nagios-core - 3.2.2
Ebuild name:

net-analyzer/nagios-core-3.2.2

Description

Nagios Core - Check daemon, CGIs, docs

Added to portage

2010-09-03

nbaudit - 1.0-r2
Ebuild name:

net-analyzer/nbaudit-1.0-r2

Description

NetBIOS file sharing services scanner (nat10)

Added to portage

2010-09-03

nmon - 14a
Ebuild name:

sys-process/nmon-14a

Description

Nigel's performance MONitor for CPU, memory, network, disks, etc...

Added to portage

2010-09-03

portage - 2.2_rc74
Ebuild name:

sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc74

Description

Portage is the package management and distribution system for Gentoo

Added to portage

2010-09-03

smbnetfs - 0.5.3
Ebuild name:

net-fs/smbnetfs-0.5.3

Description

FUSE filesystem for SMB shares

Added to portage

2010-09-03

usb_modeswitch - 1.1.4
Ebuild name:

sys-apps/usb_modeswitch-1.1.4

Description

USB_ModeSwitch is a tool for controlling 'flip flop' (multiple device

Added to portage

2010-09-03

virt-manager - 0.8.5
Ebuild name:

app-emulation/virt-manager-0.8.5

Description

A graphical tool for administering virtual machines (KVM/Xen)

Added to portage

2010-09-03

virtinst - 0.500.4
Ebuild name:

app-emulation/virtinst-0.500.4

Description

Python modules for starting virtualized guest installations

Added to portage

2010-09-03

2010-09-02
URI - 1.55
Ebuild name:

dev-perl/URI-1.55

Description

A URI Perl Module

Added to portage

2010-09-02

WWW-Curl - 4.13
Ebuild name:

dev-perl/WWW-Curl-4.13

Description

Perl extension interface for libcurl

Added to portage

2010-09-02

asciitable - 0.2.6
Ebuild name:

dev-python/asciitable-0.2.6

Description

An extensible ASCII table reader

Added to portage

2010-09-02

atpy - 0.9.4
Ebuild name:

dev-python/atpy-0.9.4

Description

Astronomical tables support Python

Added to portage

2010-09-02

bti - 028
Ebuild name:

net-misc/bti-028

Description

A command line twitter/identi.ca client

Added to portage

2010-09-02

bzr-gtk - 0.99.0
Ebuild name:

dev-vcs/bzr-gtk-0.99.0

Description

A GTK+ interfaces to most Bazaar operations

Added to portage

2010-09-02

cfengine - 3.0.5_p1
Ebuild name:

net-misc/cfengine-3.0.5_p1

Description

An automated suite of programs for configuring and maintaining Unix-like

Added to portage

2010-09-02

choqok - 0.9.90
Ebuild name:

net-im/choqok-0.9.90

Description

A Free/Open Source micro-blogging client for KDE

Added to portage

2010-09-02

chromium - 6.0.472.53
Ebuild name:

www-client/chromium-6.0.472.53

Description

Open-source version of Google Chrome web browser

Added to portage

2010-09-02

feh - 1.9
Ebuild name:

media-gfx/feh-1.9

Description

A fast, lightweight imageviewer using imlib2

Added to portage

2010-09-02

freeverb3 - 2.5.8
Ebuild name:

media-libs/freeverb3-2.5.8

Description

High Quality Reverb and Impulse Response Convolution library including X

Added to portage

2010-09-02

gtk-doc - 1.15-r1
Ebuild name:

dev-util/gtk-doc-1.15-r1

Description

GTK+ Documentation Generator

Added to portage

2010-09-02

icedtea6-bin - 1.8.1-r1
Ebuild name:

dev-java/icedtea6-bin-1.8.1-r1

Description

A Gentoo-made binary build of the icedtea6 JDK

Added to portage

2010-09-02

libview - 0.6.6
Ebuild name:

x11-libs/libview-0.6.6

Description

VMware's Incredibly Exciting Widgets

Added to portage

2010-09-02

mysql - 5.1.50-r1
Ebuild name:

dev-db/mysql-5.1.50-r1

Description

Based on the eclass

Added to portage

2010-09-02

numpy - 1.5.0
Ebuild name:

dev-python/numpy-1.5.0

Description

Fast array and numerical python library

Added to portage

2010-09-02

openrc - 0.6.3
Ebuild name:

sys-apps/openrc-0.6.3

Description

OpenRC manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

Added to portage

2010-09-02

paml - 4.4c
Ebuild name:

sci-biology/paml-4.4c

Description

Phylogenetic Analysis by Maximum Likelihood

Added to portage

2010-09-02

portage - 2.2_rc73
Ebuild name:

sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc73

Description

Portage is the package management and distribution system for Gentoo

Added to portage

2010-09-02

portpeek - 1.9.45
Ebuild name:

app-portage/portpeek-1.9.45

Description

A helper program for maintaining the package.keyword and package.unmask

Added to portage

2010-09-02

portpeek - 2.0.5
Ebuild name:

app-portage/portpeek-2.0.5

Description

A helper program for maintaining the package.keyword and package.unmask

Added to portage

2010-09-02

postgresql-base - 9.0_rc1
Ebuild name:

dev-db/postgresql-base-9.0_rc1

Description

PostgreSQL libraries and clients

Added to portage

2010-09-02

postgresql-docs - 9.0_rc1
Ebuild name:

dev-db/postgresql-docs-9.0_rc1

Description

PostgreSQL documentation

Added to portage

2010-09-02

postgresql-server - 9.0_rc1
Ebuild name:

dev-db/postgresql-server-9.0_rc1

Description

PostgreSQL server

Added to portage

2010-09-02

redet - 8.26
Ebuild name:

dev-util/redet-8.26

Description

A regular expression development and execution tool

Added to portage

2010-09-02

ruby-enterprise - 1.8.7.2010.02-r1
Ebuild name:

dev-lang/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7.2010.02-r1

Description

Ruby Enterprise Edition is a branch of Ruby including var

Added to portage

2010-09-02

sane-backends - 1.0.21-r1
Ebuild name:

media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.21-r1

Description

Scanner Access Now Easy - Backends

Added to portage

2010-09-02

tripwire - 2.4.2-r1
Ebuild name:

app-admin/tripwire-2.4.2-r1

Description

Open Source File Integrity Checker and IDS

Added to portage

2010-09-02

vo - 0.6
Ebuild name:

dev-python/vo-0.6

Description

Python module to read VOTABLE into a Numpy recarray

Added to portage

2010-09-02

xen-sources - 2.6.34-r3
Ebuild name:

sys-kernel/xen-sources-2.6.34-r3

Description

Full sources for a dom0/domU Linux kernel to run under Xen

Added to portage

2010-09-02

yaml - 0.72
Ebuild name:

dev-perl/yaml-0.72

Description

YAML Ain't Markup Language (tm)

Added to portage

2010-09-02

zen-sources - 2.6.35_p2
Ebuild name:

sys-kernel/zen-sources-2.6.35_p2

Description

The Zen Kernel Sources v2.6

Added to portage

2010-09-02

rdf newsfeed | rss newsfeed | Atom newsfeed
- Powered by LeopardCMS - Running on Gentoo -
Copyright 2004 S&P Softwaredesign
Valid XHTML1.1 : Valid CSS : buttonmaker
- Level Triple-A Conformance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 -
- Copyright and legal notices -
Time to create this page: 18.7 ms
system status display
Stellenangebote
Ärger mit Freenet.de