[Thincrust-devel] resetting the grub splash screen

Joey Boggs jboggs at redhat.com
Wed Jul 30 18:57:51 UTC 2008


It would be best to do it during the appliance-creator process and just 
feed it a path to the file rather than rely on the post install of the 
kickstart, unless you'd like to do something creative with puppet?

Bryan Kearney wrote:
> 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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