[Thincrust-devel] resetting the grub splash screen

Bryan Kearney bkearney at redhat.com
Wed Jul 30 18:47:56 UTC 2008


Which ones seem easy?

-- bk


Joey Boggs wrote:
> Yeah should be pretty simple to add it into the appliance creator, the 
> splash image has to be in the correct format which requires some third 
> party image conversion tools.
> 
> 
> Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> This is all candy, I realize. But still... Looking at some of the 
>> other live-* offerings, they customize the boot process. Is there any 
>> way to pass parameters to the appliance creator to control the grub 
>> boot screen? I could see the following:
>>
>> 1) Look for another magic file other then /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz and 
>> use it if it exists.
>>
>> 2) new kickstart option (but that would be specific to the appliance 
>> creator)
>>
>> 3) just document the sed commands for folks to do it themselves.
>>
>> 4) Possibly a custom function to call in the post to make it easier?
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> -- bk
>>
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