Splash Screen question

[Al Gordon]

On 10/18/05, Steve Zatz <slzatz at gmail.com> wrote:
> My grub kernal line does include "ro quiet splash" and I do have usplash
> installed.
>
>  Before I do:
>
>  dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r`
>
>  can you tell me what exactly that does since google wasn't very helpful.
> Thanks.

Oh, you actually want to know what a command does that a stranger
gives you that references your kernel?  That's a good kind of
paranoia.  :)

dpkg-reconfigure reconfigures packages after they have already been
installed.  I'm not totally up on exactly how usplash is tied to the
kernel, but my understanding is that there are some hardcoded values
that need to be reset, or some such.  That's probably a terrible
explanation, if it's any at all.  Maybe someone else can do better.

Here's the screen output when I run this command on my laptop:

al at slash:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r`
Password:
Not touching initrd symlinks since we are being reinstalled (2.6.12-9.23)
Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated (2.6.12-9.23)
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub .
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst .
Searching for splash image... none found, skipping...
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-686
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.12-8-686
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-686
Found kernel: /memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

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  -- AL --