[lug] isolinux splash screen

[Joey McDonald]

I've done this and it's pretty easy. Here's the tutorial I used:

http://wings.buffalo.edu/computing/ublinux/HOWTO-editboot.html

Note that you can edit the ppm using the GIMP. I noticed that if you
imported an image on top of the ppm or did anything other than use the
built in spraypaint-like tools, your splash image would get all
distorted when displayed on bootup. Also, it's easier to write out a
quick floppy disk image rather than build the ISO and burn that to CD,
so you can quickly boot off a floppy and see what it looks like.

        --Joey


On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:09:08 -0600 (MDT), Stephen Queen
<svq at peakpeak.com> wrote:
> I have been playing with syslinux/isolinux. I am trying to
> figure out how to generate a splash screen. The
> documentation seems very clik (clear if known). I seem to be
> able to create the .pnm. I then run the script ppmtolss16
> and get the .rle. I can run the opposite script lss16toppm
> and look and see that the file looks just as I want it to.
> But when I burn a CD and then boot it, I get one solid
> color, rather than the splash I expected.
> 
> Does anyone know of a good tutorial ( other than the docs
> that are included with syslinux) that explains this better?
> 
> Stephen Queen
> 
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