[OT-Sparc OB] Re: Changing the bootup logo

heffnerd (heffner@darkness.net)
Tue, 24 Aug 1999 10:22:36 -0600


While on the topic of logos, how about to generate the oem-logo for a sparc
box to change the logo in the openboot shown on startup?

On 18:53:03 22.Aug.1999, Clifford Wolf wrote:
> > Is there an easy utility to generate new data for the system boot logo?
> > I've looked at the linux_logo.h file, and can't see if it is an easy
> > derivative from an xpm or gif format. Any pointers? I'd like to be able to
> > "customize" a farm of Linux systems (yes, they shouldn't be rebooted,
> > _but_).
>
> My logo-select patch comes with a modified version of the ppm2logo.c
> program. The patch can be found on the Linux Kernel Patch Archive
> (http://linux-patches.rock-projects.com/). The description is on
>
> http://linux-patches.rock-projects.com/v2.2-f/logo-select.html
>
> A version for the Kernel 2.2.11 is part of the ROCK Linux Distribution
> (http://linux.rock-projects.com/) - but I'm not sure if it applies to
> a clean 2.2.11 kernel. It can be found as 60-logo-select-2.2.11a.patch
> on
> http://linux.rock-projects.com/rock-src-1.2.0/misc/linux/
>
> There is also a GIMP Plug-In for creating Linux Logo files. It comes with
> a Script-Fu Interface I wrote. You can find it at
>
> http://registry.gimp.org/detailview.phtml?plugin=Linux+Logo
>
> yours,
> - clifford
>
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