lilo boot splash screen

I've managed to set up a nice splash screen at boot with Lilo, so I'm posting here my /etc/lilo.conf for future reference. This one adds a picture in background (click image), the list of available kernels in top left corner, and the timer countdown in the lower right corner. The rest of the .conf file is mostly unchanged.

When I have a few spare hours I shall give a deeper look at two interesting projects. Lilo Splash for the Gimp is a Gimp plugin to create splash screens. And even cooler, animated splash screens, including a fully functionnal breakout game 8-)

boot="/dev/hda"
map=/boot/map
vga="normal"
keytable=/boot/fr-latin1.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout="100"
#message=/boot/message
#menu-title="MAIS KIKOO FFS M8"
bitmap=/root/oscar-boot.bmp
#menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
#menu-scheme=RW:CW:Rm:Gw
bmp-colors=7,5,2,2,7,5
bmp-table=20p,50p,1,10,20
bmp-timer=538p,430p,3,0,6
install=boot-bmp.b
disk=/dev/hdd bios=0x81
default=linux

image="/boot/vmlinuz.ori"
        label="linux"
        root="/dev/hdd1"
        #initrd="/boot/initrd.img"
        append="devfs=mount acpi=off"
        read-only

image="/boot/vmlinuz.ori"
        label="linux.ozh"
        root="/dev/hdd1"other=/dev/hda1
        label="windows"
        table=/dev/hda

image="/dev/hda1"
        root="/dev/hdd1"
        #initrd="/boot/initrd.img"
        append="devfs=mount acpi=off"

other=/dev/fd0
        label="floppy"
        unsafe
image="/dev/fd0"
        root="/dev/hdd1"
        #initrd="/boot/initrd.img"
        append="devfs=mount acpi=off"

        #initrd="/boot/initrd-ozh-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img"
        append="devfs=mount acpi=off"
        read-only

image="/boot/vmlinuz.ori"
        label="failsafe"
        root="/dev/hdd1"
        #initrd="/boot/initrd.img"
        append="failsafe devfs=nomount acpi=off"
        read-only

1 comment