Tux at boot

[Darryl Clarke]

On 5/25/05, Luis Murillo <lmurillo at gmx.net> wrote:
> How can I make Tux appear at the top of the screen when my system boots?
> Like it does when Knoppix boots :)

Editing the options in /boot/grub/menu.lst will accomplish this.
This turns on the framebuffer (graphical console).

$ sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst
(around line 19...)
Change the vga=normal to vga=XXX
where XXX is your desired resolution;  You only have to change it in
this one spot, as the file states grub will update the kernel lines.

Color depth  640x480  800x600  1024x768 1280x1024
8-bit            769         771          773          775
15-bit          784         787          790          793
16-bit          785         788           791         794
24-bit          786         789           792          795

Make sure that line remains commented out!
# kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro resume=/dev/hda5 vga=792

Save the file and run 
$ sudo update-grub

if you really feel like hacking in some _real_ boot images;
http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/3124
has some good details.

HTH.
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