This series of patches adds a nice BIOS startup splash screen. It adds a "-splash" option allowing to specify the picture file name (a 640x480 (or less) and true color PNG) to display. You can enable/disable a fade in, fade out and the bootmenu. The time to display the image can be also given (in seconds).
Idea stollen from VirtualBox. [PATCH 1/2] [BIOS] Add splash image support [PATCH 2/2] [QEMU] Add BIOS splash image -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html