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On 01/26/2011 04:18 PM, Troy Dawson wrote:
> Chris Pemberton wrote:
>> Congratulations; SL 6 beta runs so flawless on my two machines that
>> I'm getting bored. I'm waiting for something to bork soon so I can
>> start googling for fixes. Until then:
>>
>> The only issue I can find is when the "rings" plymouth boot screen is
>> displayed, the words "Scientific Linux 6" look like they were
>> rendered on a Nintendo; especially when contrasted with the smooth
>> animation just below it.
>>
>> The "offending" file is located at
>> /usr/share/plymouth/themes/rings/header_image.png. I've created a
>> smoother looking png; but just replacing the original file has no
>> effect at boot time. I suppose the animation is rendered beforehand
>> somehow and just played back at boot. I'll look into it.
>>
>> If you'd like a smoother-looking png file, I'd be glad to share
>> mine. I'm not a graphic artist or anything, but gimp is easy enough.
>>
>> In all honesty, thanks for the great work. I'm just a
>> stay-at-home-dad with an ME degree and an addiction to linux; but
>> you're saving me a couple hundred dollars a year with your efforts;
>> money better spent on books for my three girls.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
> Hi Chris,
> My Nintendo NES does all my graphical rendering, but you are the first
> person to notice. :)
> I ran into the same problem you did of not being able to change the
> startup graphics. You can change the shutdown graphics just by
> changing a file, but not the startup.
> The reason is that the startup graphics are in the initrd image, so
> you have to remake it. You can either reinstall a new kernel or run
>
> /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --dracut --depmod
> --update `uname -r`
>
> If I have your permission, I will put this graphic in. It does look
> very nice.
>
> Troy
You are more than welcome to use the graphic... I created it rather
hastily, so I'll check to see if the text is centred within the png file.
The command you provided did indeed create a new initrd image, even
updated my grub.conf file and everything... but upon reboot, no new
graphic! I found the following command alone will do the trick:
/usr/sbin/plymouth-set-default-theme rings --rebuild-initrd
The command executed rather fast... so I think it only updated the
existing initrd instead of recreating it from scratch.
I think it looks better... but I just chose any random font that looked
somewhat similar to the original. If there is a specific font/color
you'd like to use, let me know and I'll make another.
Chris
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