Quote Originally Posted by mithereal
ok well ill stick with isolinux but what about using bootsplash? i wanna hide all the startup texxt behind a graphic like gentoo. when i try to edit boot.msg or isolinux.cfg gives me readonly file even if i edit as root
That is fine that's because it only has read attributes set on the file (it makes sense when you realise it was copied from a CD which traditionally was read only). If you are editing in vi just force the write with "w!" and you'll be ok.

As for bootsplash i've been playing with it a little and it requires a fair degree of work (kernel rebuild, startup script mods, etc) to run, it can also limit the "boot on any hardware" capability that I like about knoppix.