RedHat Lilo Graphic

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TITLE:          Lilo beautified

LFS VERSION:    3.3

AUTHOR:	        yoonsoo <yoonsoo at gmx.net>

		



SYNOPSIS:

	How to get a nice picture as boot prompt



HINT:

Version 0.3

23/07/2002



Contents

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    1. What do you need ?

    2. Copying the bmp-file

    3. preparing lilo.conf

    4. Finish

    5. Additional Remarks and Warnings





1. What do you need 

   ----------------



     lilo-22.2 



	 or



	 lilo-22.3.2

	 nasm-0.98.34



	 (just install nasm the way you usually install packages) 



     640x480x16 bmp file





2. Copying BMP

   -----------



	You can use any BMP with the dimensions 640x480 and a colordepth


        of 16Bit. If you decide to use one of the BMP's shipped with 

        the lilo-package, you can find them at lilo-src/sample/ 

        Just copy one of them to /boot (or somewhere else if 

        you want to). Imho logo64a.bmp looks good so I will refer 

        to this on.



             	 

3. Preparing lilo.conf

   -------------------



        There are two ways



	a) set the symlink /boot/boot.b to /boot/boot-bmp.b

        b) add install=boot/boot-bmp.b to lilo.conf

       

        I prefer to change the symlink for several reasons, so you 

        will find no install= in my lilo.conf below



        add the following lines to lilo.conf



------------------------------------------------------

bitmap = /boot/logo64a.bmp (or whatever bmp you took)

bmp-colors = 6,9,0,15,9,0

bmp-table = 59,5,1,18,

bmp-timer = 66,28,6,8,0

-----------------------------------------------------



bmp-colors: here is where you set the colors used in your menu 

 the first three entries belongs to the normal menu-text and the

 last three entries specifies the colors of the highlighted

 menu-text.



bmp-table: location of the menu-table. First two entries gives

 the x, and y cooridiantes of the menu table. 59 means column 59, 

 you cal also use (eg) p400 to adress in pixels instead. The next

 two entries are the numbers of the rows and columns in our menu table.

 The last entry will specify the space between the columns if there are

 more than one.  



bmp-timer: location of the timer-box for the countdown. The first two

 entries are the coordinates and the next last values specifies  the
colors  



alternatively, if you use a lilo version greater than 22.3 you could
also do:



add the followjng lines to lilo.conf



--------------------------------------------------------------

bitmap = /boot/logo64a.bmp (or whatever bmp you took)

-------------------------------------------------------------



cat > /boot/logo64a.dat << "EOF"

bmp-colors = 6,9,0,15,9,0

bmp-table = 59,5,1,18,

bmp-timer = 66,28,6,8,0

EOF



lilo -E /boot/logo64a.dat



(see the manpage and the README's shipped with your lilo-Source for

 further details)





4. Finish

   ------



	run lilo and reboot

	Enjoy your new Boot-menu ;)



5. Additional Remarks & Warnings

   -----------------------------



	As it can be very risky to use lilo you should always have a

    working boot disk to 'repair' your boot image if things went

    wrong, and it will go wrong for sure ;)

    Be sure, that your bmp-file exists and will not be erased

    accidently. 

    And last not least : never forget to run lilo after you have

    made some changes.

	There are advantages and disadvantages which comes with 

	upgrading to lilo-22.3. Just check which is more important for 

	you.

  

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 If you have any ideas, suggestions or found a bug you can send a

 mail to:

 yoon soo <yoonsoo at gmx.net>

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
Cyber Source
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 3:21 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: RedHat Lilo Graphic


Hello All, 
  Does anyone have an idea of how to change the RedHat lilo graphic? I
have read some from the man page of lilo.conf in Mandrake and it lists,
bitmap=<bitmap-file> 
              Specifies use of a 640x480x16 bitmap  file  as  the 
              background  on which a boot menu is displayed.  May 
              not be used if 'message=' is  specified.   Requires 
              that  'install='  specify  a  boot-loader  which is 
              capable of displaying the bitmap; i.e., boot-bmp.b. 
as an option, however, I am not sure of how to specify this bootloader
and the man page of lilo.conf in RedHat 8.0 does not mention this at
all. Anyone had any experience with this? 





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