Solved: Usplash Boot Image

[Christer Edwards]

Chris,

Glad to hear it helped.  Like I said, I thought it was kind of a long
shot but sometimes that's just what saves-the-day.

Hope to see you on the list more often.

On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 23:43 -0700, Chris Featherstone wrote:
> Thanks Christer that thread led me to some things which ultimately 
> solved my problem, here a post I made in my problem thread, i thought i 
> would post a copy here just in case anyone was wondering how I ended up 
> fixing it:
> 
> [QUOTE]
> SOLVED:
> 
> I was tipped off to a tool called startup-manager (whether this tool is 
> really required or not, im not sure, keep reading) The tool manages 
> grub/usplash settings in a gui window. I thought id try changing my 
> usplash from within it, what the heck right?
> 
> Well when i went to the usplash setting screen, it listed my current 
> usplash theme as 'usplash-fix' ??? I have never heard of this 
> 'usplash-fix' so i clicked to see my installed themes and my options 
> were 'usplash-fix' and 'usplash-theme-ubuntu'. I have never seen this 
> 'usplash-fix' file listed anywhere, never in update-alternatives or 
> anything! So of course i removed it from my available themes and 
> selected 'usplash-theme-ubuntu'.
> 
> The reason i say that startup-manager may not be required is i would 
> think you could just search the harddisk for this usplash-fix (im pretty 
> sure that was the exact name) and remove just the .so file and then 
> usplash would default to the 'usplash-theme-ubuntu', however using 
> startup-manager did work for me.
> 
> Now everything is in great working order! [/QUOTE]
> 
> 
> 
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Christer Edwards
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