[Thincrust-devel] resetting the grub splash screen

[Bryan Kearney]

which approach? (2) seems the coolest, but it is a "fork" of the 
kickstart syntax which may not be a good idea.

-- bk


Joey Boggs wrote:
> I'll start working on adding it into the appliance creator, shouldn't be 
> too hard to add in quickly.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Joey Boggs wrote:
>> 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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