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

[stoner_di]

My problems:

1.I want to ask someone tried to incorporate the bootup logo (in a mini tux top left of the display to load the system).
Perform all necessary for this:
- when compiling the kernel, I select this:

Support for frame buffer devices FB->VESA VGA graphics support FB_VESA

Select all in the:

Console display driver support ->

selct all in the:

Bootup logo LOGO->

-in the GRUB, in the file menu.lst fix this row:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29.3 root=UUID=d5b52903-5.... video=vesafb vga=0x0323 ro quiet

-in the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf, comment this row:

#blacklist vesafb

-in the file /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, add:

fbcon
vesafb

-in the end update initramfs this command:

update-initramfs -u

In all my UBUNTU not load boot logo!!!!!!!!

[prvul]

My problems:

1.I want to ask someone tried to incorporate the bootup logo (in a mini tux top left of the display to load the system).
Perform all necessary for this:
- when compiling the kernel, I select this:

Support for frame buffer devices FB->VESA VGA graphics support FB_VESA

Select all in the:

Console display driver support ->

selct all in the:

Bootup logo LOGO->

-in the GRUB, in the file menu.lst fix this row:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29.3 root=UUID=d5b52903-5.... video=vesafb vga=0x0323 ro quiet

-in the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf, comment this row:

#blacklist vesafb

-in the file /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, add:

fbcon
vesafb

-in the end update initramfs this command:

update-initramfs -u

In all my UBUNTU not load boot logo!!!!!!!!

Same situation here. I tried everything that could find on net (including everything stoner_di mentioned above), but was unable to get tux logo on boot.

Is this maybe because ubuntu uses upstart as init system?

Is that hard to get this "native" linux feature on ubuntu system?

On most slackware based distros just adding vga=790 to kernel line solves the problem.

Any help would be appriciated

[stoner_di]

Тhank you, Friend.
Nobody else wants to talk about it.
My searches for TUX bootup logo continue. Maybe somewhere in the init fails there is a ban on his appearance. No one developer to help?

[Plasma_NZ]

Yet another person dragging this old topic up again...


Anyone tried on 9.10 64bit ? if so - shout out please ..

[calin_ionut]

Anyone got it work? "TUX logo at boot"

Today i installed BURG Bootloader - it`s very nice - and i was wondering if someone know how to make ubuntu boot up in text like this.

I have modified:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

to

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""

but it`s a mess up.

If someone have a solution plese post it.

Cheers!