[Thincrust-devel] resetting the grub splash screen

[Joey Boggs]

I'll start working on adding it into the appliance creator, shouldn't be 
too hard to add in quickly.




Joey Boggs wrote:
> It would be best to do it during the appliance-creator process and 
> just feed it a path to the file rather than rely on the post install 
> of the kickstart, unless you'd like to do something creative with puppet?
>
> Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> Which ones seem easy?
>>
>> -- bk
>>
>>
>> Joey Boggs wrote:
>>> Yeah should be pretty simple to add it into the appliance creator, 
>>> the splash image has to be in the correct format which requires some 
>>> third party image conversion tools.
>>>
>>>
>>> Bryan Kearney wrote:
>>>> This is all candy, I realize. But still... Looking at some of the 
>>>> other live-* offerings, they customize the boot process. Is there 
>>>> any way to pass parameters to the appliance creator to control the 
>>>> grub boot screen? I could see the following:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Look for another magic file other then /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz 
>>>> and use it if it exists.
>>>>
>>>> 2) new kickstart option (but that would be specific to the 
>>>> appliance creator)
>>>>
>>>> 3) just document the sed commands for folks to do it themselves.
>>>>
>>>> 4) Possibly a custom function to call in the post to make it easier?
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> -- bk
>>>>
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