GRUB splash screen, 2 of those?

There's no grub while shutting down as far as I know.

You have to edit /boot/message file for that.. But its a compressed file so ill write a tutorial for you!

1. in the terminal (from your home folder) type mkdir new
2. cp /boot/message new
3. cd new
4. cpio -i < message
5. dont close the terminal, and open the folder new in your home folder and edit "gfxboot.cfg" file in kwrite/gedit
6. change "penguin=-1" to "penguin=100" and save the file
7. now delete the message file in the new directory by typing "rm message"
8. now type "ls . | cpio -o > message"
9. now type "sudo cp message /boot", enter your root password if required.

That's it! Now you should be able to see the animated boot everytime!

P.S: If you wanna disable the animated boot, do penguin=0

tech_your_future said:

There's no grub while shutting down as far as I know.

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Read carefully what I have written. Shut down and press power butten. That means start the pc again. Not restart, but a differant kind of restart.

Thanks Kalpik. I will try it out as soon as I boot into SUSE.

Aditya

aditya.shevade said:

Hi

I installed opensuse 10.2 from the DVD provided with linux for you magazine.

Now whenever I restart from windows/suse and the GRUB loads, then the splash screen is a gif file, animated. With penguines mooving all around. It's brilliant.

But if I shut windows/suse down and press power butten, and then grub loads with a splash screen that is a plane blue wallpaper. So what is going on?

Aditya

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Yes, this happens a lot of time. I found this animated boot screen, whenever there is something special on the calendar. I dont know if its purely co-incidential or its following some kind of pattern.
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kalpik said:

You have to edit /boot/message file for that.. But its a compressed file so ill write a tutorial for you!

1. in the terminal (from your home folder) type mkdir new
2. cp /boot/message new
3. cd new
4. cpio -i < message
5. dont close the terminal, and open the folder new in your home folder and edit "gfxboot.cfg" file in kwrite/gedit
6. change "penguin=-1" to "penguin=100" and save the file
7. now delete the message file in the new directory by typing "rm message"
8. now type "ls . | cpio -o > message"
9. now type "sudo cp message /boot", enter your root password if required.

That's it! Now you should be able to see the animated boot everytime!

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Nice tut, but why does this happen?

The suse developers were not sure whether all the customers would like the animated boot screen! Imagine the boot screen in an office environment! Hehe.. Though i agree, it would have been much better if they would give a simpler way of enabling the animated boot permanently..

The penguin=XXX gives the probability of the animated boot screen appearing.. 0 being disabled and 100 meaning 100% probability. -1 means random.

It worked all well. Reps for you.

Aditya

Thanks

kalpik said:

The suse developers were not sure whether all the customers would like the animated boot screen! Imagine the boot screen in an office environment! Hehe.. Though i agree, it would have been much better if they would give a simpler way of enabling the animated boot permanently..

The penguin=XXX gives the probability of the animated boot screen appearing.. 0 being disabled and 100 meaning 100% probability. -1 means random.

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Ah!! That's cool. Reps added

^^ Heh.. I didnt get any reps from you! Thanks anyways
By the way, i wrote this tutorial on my blog too and it got featured on TuxMachines and YouTux

Oops!! Reps added now

Can I do it in Mandriva also?

^^ I have no idea about mandriva, as i haven't used it.. You can go ahead and try though!

kalpik said:

You have to edit /boot/message file for that.. But its a compressed file so ill write a tutorial for you!

1. in the terminal (from your home folder) type mkdir new
2. cp /boot/message new
3. cd new
4. cpio -i < message
5. dont close the terminal, and open the folder new in your home folder and edit "gfxboot.cfg" file in kwrite/gedit
6. change "penguin=-1" to "penguin=100" and save the file
7. now delete the message file in the new directory by typing "rm message"
8. now type "ls . | cpio -o > message"
9. now type "sudo cp message /boot", enter your root password if required.

That's it! Now you should be able to see the animated boot everytime!

P.S: If you wanna disable the animated boot, do penguin=0

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Thanx dude! The tutorial was rocking. I also changed by splash screen
Thanks very much!

My pleasure