Script:animated boot and shutdown splash w/o kernel patch

This script uses the Knoppix background (which you can easily change on the CD, it's in knoppix/background.jpg) during boot *and* shutdown.

Also, shutdown is made faster by using poweroff -f (which should be fine as long as you are running purely from CD - otherwise you should take that part out before using the script.)

Call this script splash.sh, put it inside knoppix/ on your CD, choose a nice knoppix/background.jpg, and there you go. No more colorful Knoppix messages...

Code:

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#!/bin/sh

#########################################################
#
# splash.sh 1.0
# by probono
# GPL
#
# burn this file to your Knoppix CD in /knoppix 
# and boot with cheatcode "splash"
#
# displays knoppix/background.jpg
# during boot and shutdown
# and makes shutdown faster (by using poweroff -f)
# NO WARRANTIES, USE THIS ON YOUR OWN RISK
#
#########################################################

#
# display splash at boot time
#

fbi \
/cdrom/knoppix/background.jpg \
-t 1 --quiet --device /dev/fb0 < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1 2>/dev/null

#########################################################
# uncomment line below if you don't want
# xsession to be changed (e. g. if you have your own)
# exit 0
#########################################################

#
# modify xsession script to display splash at halt and be faster
#

mv /etc/init.d/xsession /etc/init.d/xsession.~
cp /KNOPPIX/etc/init.d/xsession /etc/init.d/xsession

perl -pi -e 's|# After xsession exits, end X-Server|sudo nohup fbi /cdrom/knoppix/background.jpg -t 1 --quiet --device /dev/fb0 < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1 2>/dev/null & \n poweroff -f|' /etc/init.d/xsession

#
# remove that voice
#

perl -pi -e 's|OGGPLAY=/usr/bin/ogg123|OGGPLAY=echo|' /etc/init.d/xsession
perl -pi -e 's|PLAY=/usr/bin/wavp|PLAY=echo|' /etc/init.d/xsession

#
# give control back to init
#

exit 0

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Btw, this can easily be extended to include animations, a progress bar, truetype text etc. using the userland tools from http://www.bootsplash.org/user.html

Other than what the site suggests, the userland tools can also be used *without* the kernel patch.

For example, to have a nice progress bar animation (taken from http://www.bootsplash.org/themes.html):

Code:

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#!/bin/sh

# userlandsplash 1.0
# fancy uslerlandsplash stuff
# by probono

# get the screen resolution
RESOLUTION=`/cdrom/knoppix/splash/fbresolution`
WIDTH=`echo $RESOLUTION | cut -f1 -d x`
HEIGHT=`echo $RESOLUTION | cut -f2 -d x`

# calculate the x and y coordinates for the animation
XCOORD=`perl -l -e "print ($WIDTH/2-101);"`
YCOORD=`perl -l -e "print ($HEIGHT*0.75);"`

#
# do some animation
# a progress bar could be done based on what is written
# to the console...
# /cdrom/knoppix/splash/progress $YCOORD $XCOORD 50 50 999999
# sleep 1
# /cdrom/knoppix/splash/progress $YCOORD $XCOORD 50 50 000000
# sleep 1
#

# display the animation
/cdrom/knoppix/splash/fbmngplay \
/cdrom/knoppix/splash/progress.mng -x $XCOORD -y $YCOORD &

# let this thing run until we are up and running
until [ "$RUNLEVEL" = "N 5" ]
### until ps -A | grep xsession
do
sleep 30
RUNLEVEL=`runlevel`
done

# then kill (softly, so that fbmngplay fades out) and exit
killall -INT fbmngplay
exit 0

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Excellent tip there, i think ill use this one tonight for my remaster :)

This is very interesting stuff!!
But I need some more infos to understand this stuff:

- Are all scripts put into /cdrom/knoppix/ executed?
- If yes, when are they executed?

Do I habe to install the splash (userland?) software?

Thanks

Quote:

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Originally Posted by veuf

Are all scripts put into /cdrom/knoppix/ executed?

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No, just knoppix.sh and in the newer Knoppix versions also splash.sh

Quote:

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Originally Posted by veuf

If yes, when are they executed?

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knoppix.sh after the init process
splash.sh early in the init process (before the hw detection starts)

Quote:

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Originally Posted by veuf

Do I habe to install the splash (userland?) software?

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Yes. Simply put the executables (fbmngplay etc...) in /cdrom/knoppix/splash for example and call them in the script from there.

Thanks for the tips!

I compiled fbmngplay.
But I didn't succees in showing picture with fbi AND showing the nimation with fbmngplay at the same time.

Where in your script is the boot-picture being loaded? I can only see fbmngplay.

I'd like to do:

fbi -q -a /cdrom/KNOPPIX/splash/bootsplash.png
fbmngplay -x XXX -y YYY /cdrom/KNOPPIX/splash/animation.mng < ... > ...

Can this be done lika that?

Thanks

http://mentors.debian.net/debian/dis...n/binary-i386/
has the bootsplash tools as debian packages which you can simply unpack with "unp -u" so that you don't have to compile them yourself.

The picture is loaded with

Code:

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fbi \
/cdrom/knoppix/background.jpg \
-t 1 --quiet --device /dev/fb0 < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1 2>/dev/null

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Thank you.

Using a code similar to the following, first the boot-splash is shown, then the animation is started. But following things are not okay yet:

1. I don't know the string for special Keys as "Esc", "F2" ... to stop the animation & splash
2. When I use the your proposed code that waits until init=5, the following happens: when the knoppix-background is loaded, the anmimation stays on top of the screen.
3. When a key is pressed after the splash image is shown AND before the animation starts, fbi quits, and only the animation will be shown (ugly)

Code:

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#!/bin/sh

# get the screen resolution
RESOLUTION=`remaster/bin/fbresolution`
WIDTH=`echo $RESOLUTION | cut -f1 -d x`
HEIGHT=`echo $RESOLUTION | cut -f2 -d x`

# calculate the x and y coordinates for the animation
XCOORD=`perl -l -e "print ($WIDTH/2-101);"`
YCOORD=`perl -l -e "print ($HEIGHT*0.65);"`

# display the splash-screen and the animation
fbi -q -a /cdrom/KNOPPIX/bootsplash.png < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1 2>/dev/null &
sleep 2
fbmngplay /cdrom/KNOPPIX/animation.mng -S -x $XCOORD -y $YCOORD &

while read input; do
    if [ "$input" = "Esc" ]; then    # ??? Which special string ?
        killall -INT fbmngplay
        sleep 1
        killall -INT fbi
        exit 0
    fi
done

exit 0

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Fabian is working on this:
http://debian.tu-bs.de/knoppix/experiments/

I know this is an old thread, but I tried this in v6.0.1 and I cannot seem to make it work. The splash cheatcode appears to do nothing. Is there an alternative method to accomplish this in 6.0.1?

-B