Re: [gentoo-user] cannot get boot splash work (initrd fail to load)

2004-01-22 Thread Bill Roberts
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 configura

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot get boot splash work (initrd fail to load)

2004-01-21 Thread Tianran Chen
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 s

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot get boot splash work (initrd fail to load)

2004-01-21 Thread Tianran Chen
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 sa

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot get boot splash work (initrd fail to load)

2004-01-21 Thread Jakub Krajcovic
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 ke

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot get boot splash work (initrd fail to load)

2004-01-21 Thread Tianran Chen
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 follow

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot get boot splash work (initrd fail to load)

2004-01-21 Thread Petro Verkhogliad
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, foll

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot get boot splash work (initrd fail to load)

2004-01-20 Thread Rainer Sigwald
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: > > RA

[gentoo-user] cannot get boot splash work (initrd fail to load)

2004-01-20 Thread Tianran Chen
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