dark boot??

[Manu]

I am a RH8.0 and Slackware 9.0 user. I would like to know how to
configure my distros (is it the same for all linux systems?) so they
display an image on the screen rather than all the initial setup
information that they now show me during startup. I am not even sure
what this is called (dark boot??).
I want this from the time I switch on my computer. I guess it has to
be done at 2 stages.... once at the BIOS stage and then the the OS
stage at bootup.
-Manu

[Michael C.]

On 19 Sep 2003 15:36:02 -0700, Manu <mprasann@usc.edu> wrote:

> I am a RH8.0 and Slackware 9.0 user. I would like to know how to
> configure my distros (is it the same for all linux systems?) so they
> display an image on the screen rather than all the initial setup
> information that they now show me during startup. I am not even sure
> what this is called (dark boot??).
> I want this from the time I switch on my computer. I guess it has to
> be done at 2 stages.... once at the BIOS stage and then the the OS
> stage at bootup.
> -Manu

Playing with Bios is kind of risky, but for the second phase, lilo can
be set up to use a 640x480x16 color bmp file, I'd imagine grub can be
as well.

I set mine up in Debian LILO version 22.2, when I used RH7.2 I upgraded
LILO, but I think that was for playing with partitions if I recall. I
think both distros should be equal to the task. If you need help I'll
clean up my lilo.conf, but Debian's comes with LOTS of comments.

Michael C.
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