[Thincrust-devel] resetting the grub splash screen

[Joey Boggs]

Should be able to write in a --splash option to appliance-creator, 
doesn't look to hard to implement without changing alot so far. Or what 
about a branding type rpm package? includes boot splashscreen etc.....? 
That would be the simplest to create given the documentation for it. 
Then in the script section of the package symlink it to the new image.

What do you think about those options?


Bryan Kearney wrote:
> 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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