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kernelOfTruth
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cato`
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 Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:11 pm Post subject: Re: new gentoo theme |
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| kernelOfTruth wrote: |
there's a permission problem with your file (+r missing) |
Fixed!
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sethleon
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I used:
gfxboot-3.3.24-11.src.rpm
grub-0.97-r3 with patches from the bug report
You also could rebuild the boot-message file.
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shaumux
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:31 am Post subject: |
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hmm i also used the same except for gfxboot was 3.3.24.26,
also i rebuild the message file before putting it and using it, still i have corrupted graphics. |
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sethleon
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:40 am Post subject: |
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Is it only the graphics, or the text as well ?
Maybe the graphic is too large or has too many colors for your configuration ?
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shaumux
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Actually I am not getting to the the graphics screen
I see the loading stage 1.5 message and with that on the right top corner theres a box like the ones in the PC initialization screen with some odd text and message. The box extends upto half of the screen vertically and 1/3rd vertically and after waiting some time i get a graphics initilization failed message
I tried rebuilding gfxboot, didn't help.
I have a 17" CRT Monitor
I can take a picture of the screen and the error and upload it if that would help. |
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sethleon
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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How about the packages around gfxboot,
have you followed the instructions mentioned in Bug as follows?
Bug #103272 Description 0 (Bugs.Gentoo.org)
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shaumux
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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Yes the I followed the instructions as given there.
To double check i removed and redid it. Didn't work.
The default Suse theme from the gfxboot package is working for me.
Compiled grub and gfxboot without any useflags.
Stil getting the error.
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/2545/dsc006811if5.jpg
after pressing esc
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/439/dsc00678cj2.jpg
The message in the second picture is graphics initialization failed
Heres my grub.conf
| Code: | default 0
#timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#gfxmenu (hd0,6)/boot/message
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/bzImage-2.6.20-gentoo-r8 splash=silent,fadein,theme:livecd-2007.0 video=intelfb:1024x768-32@60,mtrr,ywrap quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 root=/dev/hda9
initrd (hd0,6)/boot/fbsplash-livecd-2007.0-1024x768
title=Gentoo Linux (rescue)
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/bzImage-2.6.20-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda9 init=/bin/bb
title=Windows Vista Ultimate
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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Still your theme is not working for me.
I extract it to my home directory make it and copy the message file to /boot
Is it working for others? |
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yoyo
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:57 am Post subject: |
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| shaumux wrote: | Yes the I followed the instructions as given there.
To double check i removed and redid it. Didn't work.
The default Suse theme from the gfxboot package is working for me.
Compiled grub and gfxboot without any useflags.
Stil getting the error.
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/2545/dsc006811if5.jpg
after pressing esc
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/439/dsc00678cj2.jpg
The message in the second picture is graphics initialization failed
Still your theme is not working for me.
I extract it to my home directory make it and copy the message file to /boot
Is it working for others? |
Exactly the same here ... 
Untarred on my home directory, copied to the gfxboot theme path, changing default language and removing english from Makefile (error comes probably from here). Compiled fine but it produces the same error showed in picture.
Someone can help us please ? 
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shaumux
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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Ok using the SuSe theme coming from gfxboot and he pictures from sethleon's theme
I created another one, I just copied the pictures from one to another Thas all and now its working for me
Here it is http://www.mediafire.com/?bxdsgnovxrl |
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cato`
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:10 am Post subject: |
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| shaumux wrote: | Ok using the SuSe theme coming from gfxboot and he pictures from sethleon's theme
I created another one, I just copied the pictures from one to another Thas all and now its working for me
Here it is http://www.mediafire.com/?bxdsgnovxrl |
Mirrored for easier downloading 
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yoyo
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| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:54 am Post subject: |
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| shaumux wrote: | Ok using the SuSe theme coming from gfxboot and he pictures from sethleon's theme
I created another one, I just copied the pictures from one to another Thas all and now its working for me
Here it is http://www.mediafire.com/?bxdsgnovxrl |
Thanks a lot ! It works with your version ! Looks pretty nice
Thanks @cato` too for hosting files.
Enjoy !
PS : If someone can explain why it doesn't work with @sethleon version ...
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shaumux
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| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't know why but the file generated by his version is quite smaller than the other ones. |
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sethleon
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe because the difference from version gfxboot-3.3.24-11.src.rpm to yours
has some tiny stupid changes that make it not really usable. 
Same as problems earlier mentioned in this topic.
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Rion
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| Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 8:54 am Post subject: |
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just updated gfxboot ebuild in overlay on bugzilla
works fine for me
now compilation will be more fast
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Kate Monster
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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| hi, is there any way to decompile a file created with mkbootmsg? I'd like to use this theme but I want to have a gentoo logo instead of the debian one. |
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Rion
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:31 am Post subject: |
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Xaero, message file is cpio archive. so you can unpack it, exchange pictures and pack again
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Kate Monster
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:11 am Post subject: |
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| Rion wrote: | | Xaero, message file is cpio archive. so you can unpack it, exchange pictures and pack again |
ahh, many thanks!  |
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Kate Monster
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| Xaero wrote: | | hi, is there any way to decompile a file created with mkbootmsg? I'd like to use this theme but I want to have a gentoo logo instead of the debian one. |
thats weird, neither theme will work, the original or the modified one...on boot they both say "invalid file format". What could be causing this? |
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Kate Monster
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:46 am Post subject: |
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| Xaero wrote: | | Xaero wrote: | | hi, is there any way to decompile a file created with mkbootmsg? I'd like to use this theme but I want to have a gentoo logo instead of the debian one. |
thats weird, neither theme will work, the original or the modified one...on boot they both say "invalid file format". What could be causing this? |
I fixed it I unmerged grub and gfxboot and installed Ubuntu's grub-gfxboot package via dpkg and now it works. |
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Rion
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Xaero wrote: | | I fixed it I unmerged grub and gfxboot and installed Ubuntu's grub-gfxboot package via dpkg and now it works. |
i'll ivestigate this problem and probably make new patchset
i guess this is because of gfxboot ebuild from my overlay use latest nightly source packages. but maybe i'm wrong
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Hamsterkill
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| So, I seem to have gfxboot working, however, I want to be able to have the penguins boot screen that comes with the Suse themes. I realized that when I try to remake the Suse installed themes, the gfxboot.cfg is not included in the message archive, nor are the penguins images. Anyone been able to enable this bootscreen in gfxboot yet or what? |
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infinity9
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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got gfxboot working--currently using the openSuSE theme for the time being.
does anyone know how to change the aspect ratio? my screen is 1680x1050, and GRUB would look noticeably better if i could change to that resolution.
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n3Cre0
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:40 am Post subject: |
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| Xaero wrote: | | Xaero wrote: | | hi, is there any way to decompile a file created with mkbootmsg? I'd like to use this theme but I want to have a gentoo logo instead of the debian one. |
thats weird, neither theme will work, the original or the modified one...on boot they both say "invalid file format". What could be causing this? |
Same problem here, I had to reinstall gentoo, and when setting up this gfxboot it also gave me "INVALID FILE FORMAT". I guess it's because I'm using the latest version (gfxboot-3.3.37-2.src.rpm), that it uses a new format and breaks the older themes?
Installing it now with the .deb from ubuntu (using alien and rpm, dpkg gives me an error...).
| Error dpkg wrote: | # dpkg -i grub-gfxboot_0.97-5_i386.deb
dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' for reading: No such file or directory
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EDIT: Even installing the rpm doesn't work 
| Error rpm wrote: | # alien -r grub-gfxboot_0.97-5_i386.deb
grub-gfxboot-0.97-6.i386.rpm generated
# rpm -Uhv grub-gfxboot-0.97-6.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
/bin/sh is needed by grub-gfxboot-0.97-6.i386
libc.so.6 is needed by grub-gfxboot-0.97-6.i386
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by grub-gfxboot-0.97-6.i386
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by grub-gfxboot-0.97-6.i386
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by grub-gfxboot-0.97-6.i386
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) is needed by grub-gfxboot-0.97-6.i386
libncurses.so.5 is needed by grub-gfxboot-0.97-6.i386
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EDIT#2: My bad, this worked
| rpm installing wrote: | # rpm -Uvh --nodeps grub-gfxboot-0.97-6.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:grub-gfxboot ########################################### [100%]
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EDIT#3: I rebooted and still got the same problemn, grrrr
Can anyone please, please post a working gfxboot-src?? I really want to get this working again
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Sno
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:26 am Post subject: |
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you can't decompile but you can extract the jpegs to use on your own.
http://schmidt.devlib.org/software/jpeg-extractor.html
Works perfectly for me.
Edit: I found out how to decompile a gfxboot message file.
| Quote: | mkdir /home/name/whatever
cpio -i < /boot/grub/message.suse # replace it by the name of you message
edit the pictures
sudo ls . |cpio -o > /boot/grub/message.new |
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