HOWTO: Spice up your boot text [font resolution and color]

[southernman]

Dragging this post up yet again... modified the hack for Dapper if anyone is interested.

As was posted above:

printf '[ '
$TPUT setaf 2 # green
printf ok
$TPUT op # normal
echo ' ]'

To get blue brackets surrounding the "ok" text, modify the above to look like this:

$TPUT setaf  4 # blue
printf '[ '
$TPUT setaf  2 # green
printf ok
$TPUT setaf  4 # blue
echo ' ]'
$TPUT op  # normal

Important notations:

1- Make sure there are two (2) spaces between setaf / op and the # sign... if you don't - you'll need a rescue cd to get in and make the changes.

2- If the cursor wraps to the next line, it will flash as blue... don't worry, it goes back to white

wOOt! My first hack. Although small, it's encouraging none-the-less!!!

[kish]

Thats wonderful
I would like to add these

Vga value for various res

640×480 - 785
800×600 - 788
1024×768 - 791
1152×864 - 355
1280×1024 - 794
1600×1200 - 798

[xasx]

Does anyone know how this can be done under Gutsy?

And: Is there a way to define these colors when using usplash?

Thanks
xasx

[jamieshanks]

Hi xasx,

Yep, the green OK and white [] works with Gutsy, I just did it

Jamie

[FoolishGhoul]

hi folks, good work it seems, only on my gutsy box it doesn't seem to apply...

i don't have an /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh file, and the /lib/lsb/init-functions is not helpful either.

what i want should be really simple - and that is to turn all the text green

...got a bit of green theme going on...

[Adnarim]

@FoolishGhoul: I'm using Gutsy myself and everything works fine. The file does exist here.

[Zorael]

Could someone please summarise how to do this in Gutsy? I'm confused now and I don't want to botch up my installation. :<

I understand the file we want to change is now /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh, but what to change and where?

I'd love to get mine to display as http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.p...6&d=1126560896 does. This includes getting the success/fail text all the way to the left.

[Yes]

For anyone who wants to do this in Gusty or Hardy, there's currently a bug where adding the vga= line to your bootoptions will result in a black bootup screen and ttys. Here's the bug page: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ls/+bug/129910. I got it working thank's to Caravel's post (which I can't seem to find anymore), but only at 1024x768 (my native resolution is 1440x900).

[Zorael]

I got the vga lines to work after adding

fbcon
vesafb
nvidiafb

...to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, and commenting vesafb and nvidiafb in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.

I don't know which of fbcon/vesafb/nvidiafb did the trick, but now my vga=0x031a option works.

But, again, could someone please explain what I need to do to get purdy colors and possibly left-aligned ok/failed stamps during the boot - in Gutsy? This thread would've helped greatly if it weren't written for earlier versions, and the changes needed to make it work in Dapper+ are only fragments from which I can't piece together much. :<

$TPUT setaf  4 # blue
printf '[ '
$TPUT setaf  2 # green
printf ok
$TPUT setaf  4 # blue
echo ' ]'
$TPUT op  # normal

...where??

[Xk2c]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...6&postcount=45

the location and the things needed to be changed haven't changed since then.