Re: [gentoo-user] cannot get boot splash work (initrd fail to load)
On 21:56 Wed 21 Jan , Tianran Chen wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Petro Verkhogliad wrote: the strange thing is that have the bootplash and background working. however, i am still getting the message about the RAM disk being invalid. for me, the key to the whole configuration was getting the kernel settings right. at the same time, i am running 2.6.1-love5 which is prepatched for bootsplash. it makes the configurations issuses less troublesome. good luck it is really strange. i thought the kernel as to load images from the initrd. if it is invalid, how can the kernel load anything? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I had the same dmesg. I had been following the instructions in the bootsplash howto, they worked fine on one machine, not on this one. I did some sleuthing and found that the command to create the images given in the howto seems out-of-date. The path has changed. I has to use: /sbin/splash -s -f \ /etc/bootsplash/gentoo/config/bootsplash-1024x768.cfg \ /boot/initrd-1024x768 to get mine to work. Of course, change the resolution to suit your taste. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot get boot splash work (initrd fail to load)
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 00:17:44 -0500 (EST) Tianran Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i am trying to get the boot splash and background from terminals to work, however, after a whole day of try, it seems there are something i did wrong. i am now using kernel 2.4.22-gentoo-r5, following exactly the steps shown, i set up the the boot splash, recompile the kernel (this kernel is already patched) and generate the initrd. but after reboot, i got error message saying that: RAMDISK: couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. it seems the initrd image is invalid. can anyone tell me what i did wrong? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list the strange thing is that have the bootplash and background working. however, i am still getting the message about the RAM disk being invalid. for me, the key to the whole configuration was getting the kernel settings right. at the same time, i am running 2.6.1-love5 which is prepatched for bootsplash. it makes the configurations issuses less troublesome. good luck -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot get boot splash work (initrd fail to load)
thanks for replying. i'm quite sure /boot is mounted at the time i generate and copy the initrd image. the kernel is manually configured. the 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 seems already patched with the boot splash patch, since i saw the option: [*] Use bootsplash instead of boot logo. i was following the HOWTO from http://reviewed.homelinux.org/gentoo/bootsplash/ and the steps i went through are: 0. emerge bootsplash 1. configure the kernel, with following options enabled: [*] MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support [*] Loopback device support [*] RAM disk support [*] Initial RAM disk (initrd) support [*] VGA text console [*] Video mode selection supportB [*] Support for frame buffer devices [*] VESA VGA graphics console [*] Use splash screen instead of boot logo 2. compiled new kernel, and copy it to /boot. 3. rc-update add bootsplash boot. 4. copied an initrd from /usr/share/bootsplash to /boot 4.alt. also tried generate a new initrd by: /sbin/splash -s -f /etc/bootsplash/default/config/bootsplash-1024x768.cfg /boot/initrd-1024x768 5. edit grub.conf: kernel /kernel-2.4.22-splash root=/dev/hda2 video=mtrr,vesa:1024x768 vga=0x317 splash=silent initrd=/initrd-1024x768 6. reboot kernel obviously enabled framebuffer. but boot logo is shown, but no boot splash. the /proc/splash does not exist neither. can anyone help me? thanks On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Rainer Sigwald wrote: Hmm. Was /boot mounted when you copied the initrd over? Are you using the genkernel automagic-everything, or doing it manually? What was the exact command you used to make the initrd? Also, you were following the steps shown . . . where? I'm no expert, but I think the guys that are will need to know this stuff. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot get boot splash work (initrd fail to load)
After you boot, check dmesg, whether it found the boot image, and if it did, what went wrong... On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 19:55:51 -0500 (EST) Tianran Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for replying. i'm quite sure /boot is mounted at the time i generate and copy the initrd image. the kernel is manually configured. the 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 seems already patched with the boot splash patch, since i saw the option: [*] Use bootsplash instead of boot logo. i was following the HOWTO from http://reviewed.homelinux.org/gentoo/bootsplash/ and the steps i went through are: 0. emerge bootsplash 1. configure the kernel, with following options enabled: [*] MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support [*] Loopback device support [*] RAM disk support [*] Initial RAM disk (initrd) support [*] VGA text console [*] Video mode selection supportB [*] Support for frame buffer devices [*] VESA VGA graphics console [*] Use splash screen instead of boot logo 2. compiled new kernel, and copy it to /boot. 3. rc-update add bootsplash boot. 4. copied an initrd from /usr/share/bootsplash to /boot 4.alt. also tried generate a new initrd by: /sbin/splash -s -f /etc/bootsplash/default/config/bootsplash-1024x768.cfg /boot/initrd-1024x768 5. edit grub.conf: kernel /kernel-2.4.22-splash root=/dev/hda2 video=mtrr,vesa:1024x768 vga=0x317 splash=silent initrd=/initrd-1024x768 6. reboot kernel obviously enabled framebuffer. but boot logo is shown, but no boot splash. the /proc/splash does not exist neither. can anyone help me? thanks On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Rainer Sigwald wrote: Hmm. Was /boot mounted when you copied the initrd over? Are you using the genkernel automagic-everything, or doing it manually? What was the exact command you used to make the initrd? Also, you were following the steps shown . . . where? I'm no expert, but I think the guys that are will need to know this stuff. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot get boot splash work (initrd fail to load)
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: After you boot, check dmesg, whether it found the boot image, and if it did, what went wrong... first, it saids: bootsplash: slient mode this seems to me that the kernel does support bootsplash, and is trying to load it. then later it saids: RAMDISK: couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0 this seems to me that the initrd is invalid. nowhere in the dmesg had mentioned loading image. /etc/init.d/bootsplash also fail to load since /proc/splash does not even exist. i have been tried to solve this problem for almost three days already. it is so confusing. any help are appreciated. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot get boot splash work (initrd fail to load)
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Petro Verkhogliad wrote: the strange thing is that have the bootplash and background working. however, i am still getting the message about the RAM disk being invalid. for me, the key to the whole configuration was getting the kernel settings right. at the same time, i am running 2.6.1-love5 which is prepatched for bootsplash. it makes the configurations issuses less troublesome. good luck it is really strange. i thought the kernel as to load images from the initrd. if it is invalid, how can the kernel load anything? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] cannot get boot splash work (initrd fail to load)
hi, i am trying to get the boot splash and background from terminals to work, however, after a whole day of try, it seems there are something i did wrong. i am now using kernel 2.4.22-gentoo-r5, following exactly the steps shown, i set up the the boot splash, recompile the kernel (this kernel is already patched) and generate the initrd. but after reboot, i got error message saying that: RAMDISK: couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. it seems the initrd image is invalid. can anyone tell me what i did wrong? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot get boot splash work (initrd fail to load)
On 00:17 Wed 21 Jan , Tianran Chen wrote: i am now using kernel 2.4.22-gentoo-r5, following exactly the steps shown, i set up the the boot splash, recompile the kernel (this kernel is already patched) and generate the initrd. but after reboot, i got error message saying that: RAMDISK: couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. it seems the initrd image is invalid. can anyone tell me what i did wrong? Hmm. Was /boot mounted when you copied the initrd over? Are you using the genkernel automagic-everything, or doing it manually? What was the exact command you used to make the initrd? Also, you were following the steps shown . . . where? I'm no expert, but I think the guys that are will need to know this stuff. -R pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
