Boot splash how to by Mzilikazi

[shah]

From kanotix forum, written by Mzilikazi:

You can patch and rebuild your kernel with a patch from here:
http://bootsplash.de/

More info on bootsplash can be found here:
http://bootsplash.org

or get Kano's latest 2.6.7 kernel as it is already patched.

http://kanotix.com/files/kernel/kernel-2.6.7-kanotix.zip

echo "deb http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

apt-get update && apt-get install sysv-rc-bootsplash bootsplash kernel-patch-bootsplash bootsplash-theme-debian-tux

When you configure bootsplash selcet 'none'
Allow bootsplash to configure startup scripts? 'YES'
Edit your boot loader.

A grub example:

root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7-kanotix root=/dev/hda1 ro splash=silent vga=791
initrd /boot/initrd.splash
savedefault
boot

A lilo example:

image=/boot/vmlinuz
initrd=/boot/initrd.splash
append="splash=silent"
vga=791

New deb source
echo "deb http://www.bootsplash.de/files/debian unstable main
deb-src http://www.bootsplash.de/files/debian unstable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

I just tried it using kanotix kernel 2.6.8.1-kanotix-5.
At first I had problem of sysv-rc_2.86-5_all.deb and bootsplash_3.1-6_i386.deb unable to write to blah....blah.
Then I tried with:
dpkg -i --force-all /var/cache/apt/archives/sysv-rc_2.86-5_all.deb
dpkg -i --force-all /var/cache/apt/archives/bootsplash_3.1-6_i386.deb
apt-get -f install

Now it works. I have a nice bootsplash.
I wrote this so that others can try it too.

Thanks to Mzilikazi.
:D :D :D :D

[Henk Poley]

I am getting this error from apt-get:

Unpacking sysv-rc (from .../sysv-rc_2.86-5_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/sysv-rc_2.86-5_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/etc/init.d/rc', which is also in package sysvinit
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/sysv-rc_2.86-5_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Know any fix?

[Edit] I should have read what you write, you already give a fix :-P

[shah]

As mentioned above:
dpkg -i --force-all /var/cache/apt/archives/sysv-rc_2.86-5_all.deb
dpkg -i --force-all /var/cache/apt/archives/bootsplash_3.1-6_i386.deb
apt-get -f install
:D [/quote]