Animated penguin GRUB splash screen

English Install/Boot/Login
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SDB:Animated penguin GRUB splash screen - openSUSE

are there other ANIMATED grub screens to choose from in opensuse 12.1 or it that just a holiday surprise?

in the article is the short way a safe way to change ?

thanks

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On 2011-12-19 11:16, diablo1 wrote:

> are there other ANIMATED grub screens to choose from in opensuse 12.1
> or it that just a holiday surprise?

Yes, just a holiday surprise. I don’t know if there are others, I haven’t
heard of them.

> in the article is the short way a safe way to change ?

At worst, the graphic boot would revert to text.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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would the long version be safer, i dont want to screw up my system?

so there isnt a safe way

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It’s really not worth the fiddling experience

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got it

thanks

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On 2011-12-19 14:36, diablo1 wrote:
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> would the long version be safer, i dont want to screw up my system?

If you are that worried, make a backup of the message file.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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is that message file located root/boot/message?
i tired opening it with kwrite, its another type?
is CPIO archive file a type of zip file?

how to view and edit with what program?

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On 2011-12-20 12:56, diablo1 wrote:
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> is that message file located root/boot/message?

yes. No! /boot/grub/message.

> i tired opening it with kwrite, its another type?

Of course. The wiki page told you how to do it.

> is CPIO archive file a type of zip file?

Kind of.
man cpio.

> how to view and edit with what program?

Again, read the wiki page. It is all there, I’m not going to explain it here.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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I looked in boot/grub for a file titled message, there isnt a file there named message even with show hidden files checked

so i looked in root/boot/message, there is one there

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using the boot message file, it wont let me save the gfxboot.dfg file, how do i save it, dont have permission

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saved file fine. then compressed with command

ls . | cpio -o > message’

back to message said copied some number KB & 1843 blocks. then did the rest of the commands and rebooted, didnt work didnt see penquins. copied original backup copy of message with command

su -
cp message /boot

back to boot folder… as from what i understood from the article

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On 2011-12-20 15:36, diablo1 wrote:
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> I looked in boot/grub for a file titled message, there isnt a file
> there named message even with show hidden files checked

Not “boot/grub” but “/boot/grub”. Attention to the letter is important with
computers. If the file “message” is not there, there is something very
wrong with your installation that you are not explaining.

You are supposed to work as “root” in a terminal for this procedure.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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the message cpio archive is located in the boot folder. i dont see any mesage archive in grub folder. the message file from the boot folder which i extracted the files from has the gfxboot.cfg which the article is asking for and in the archive it has the penquin info…

[base]
; theme name
theme=openSUSE
; product name
product=
; other sections to read
layout=800x600,boot
; penguin theme likelihood (in percent, -1 = auto)
penguin=-1
; activate speech output
talk=0
; sound volume (0..100)/CODE] 

i have opensuse 12.1
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also when I

# ls . | cpio -o > message’

I get

# ls . | cpio -o > message’
cpio: File message’ grew, 283648 new bytes not copied
1424 blocks
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tried without the ’ after massage and still cant get the long way to work, so i tried the short way and the short way works

thanks