[mythtv-users] Loading image during the boot process

[nick]

Luca Lucchesi wrote:
> Hi.
> I'm using MythTV frontend on a Debian Sid system.
> When the Debian system is booting up I can see all the boot text messages, 
> like the Debian style.
> How I can do if I wish not to see the text message, but I want to see an 
> image with a loading bar, like in the Ubuntu distro?
> I searched with Google but I didn't found so much information about it...
> 
> Anyone could get me any ideas, please?
> I hope I managed in explain my question...
> 
> Thank you very much!
> Bye,
> Luca.
> 

Let's see what we can find:

| nick at Corvus:~$ apt-cache search boot splash
| bootsplash - Enables a graphical boot screen
| bootsplash-theme-debian - The bootsplash theme debian
| kernel-patch-bootsplash - Bootsplash enables a graphical boot screen
| (kernel-patch)
| libsplashy0 - Library to draw splash screen on boot, shutdown, resume
| or suspend
| libsplashy0-dev - Library to draw splash screen on boot, shutdown,
| resume or suspend
| lilo - LInux LOader - The Classic OS loader can load Linux and others
| lilo-doc - Documentation for LILO (LInux LOader)
| linux-patch-bootsplash - Bootsplash enables a graphical boot screen
| (kernel-patch)
| splashy - A complete user-space boot splash system
| splashy-themes - A complete user-space boot splash system
| sysv-rc-bootsplash - Bootsplash patches for rc files
| usplash - Userspace bootsplash utility

Okay, 'bootsplash', 'splashy', and 'usplash' look promising:

| nick at Corvus:~$ apt-cache show bootsplash
| Package: bootsplash
| Priority: optional
| Section: graphics
| Installed-Size: 284
| Maintainer: Free Ekanayaka <freee at debian.org>
| Architecture: i386
| Version: 3.3-6
| Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2), libmng1 (>=
| 1.0.3-1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0,
| bootsplash-theme-debian | bootsplash-theme, initramfs-tools
| Recommends: grub
| Conflicts: bootsplash-theme-debiantux
| Filename: pool/main/b/bootsplash/bootsplash_3.3-6_i386.deb
| Size: 85276
| MD5sum: b031cbdccfb3587cc6172cb52e25d988
| SHA1: d1c7fdeb1cda9d2c880db8c5bd24bb050926c7f0
| SHA256:
| dc369be0b230ff07c5b79f3caad6b2374f103e795faf9191431282119d262192
| Description: Enables a graphical boot screen
|  This package enables a graphical boot screen similar to that of
|  of Windows.  Features include:
|  .
|   - Nice graphics (JPEG)
|   - Antialiased text rendering (TrueType)
|   - Animations (MNG)
|   - Progress Bar
|   - Display of boot messages above or below a graphic.
|   - Fully themeable
|  .
|  This package contains only the bootsplash userland tools.  You need a
| patched
|  bootsplash kernel in order to use boot splash.  The userland tools
| consist of
|  utilities for creating splash images and utilities and scripts used
| internally
|  by bootsplash to draw text and play animations.
| Tag: admin::boot, interface::framebuffer

Bummer, appears you need to patch the kernel for 'bootsplash'; let's 
look at 'splashy':

| nick at Corvus:~$ apt-cache show splashy
| Package: splashy
| Priority: optional
| Section: graphics
| Installed-Size: 3428
| Maintainer: Splashy Devel <splashy-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
| Architecture: i386
| Version: 0.3.2
| Replaces: debsplash-utils, bootsplash
| Provides: bootsplash
| Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libmagic1,
| libsplashy0, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
| Recommends: lsb-base | lsb
| Suggests: splashy-themes, initramfs-tools
| Conflicts: debsplash-utils, bootsplash
| Filename: pool/main/s/splashy/splashy_0.3.2_i386.deb
| Size: 2048268
| MD5sum: 1bcacb6b2939a68a46a140b55fe3bfda
| SHA1: 4e1f67873b8229c6eb9e4f65de6dee0d44e1d2aa
| SHA256:
| 453d9db978b87bcae94cfcddec950d6f4c47e6c900b392763f4fb95b6ad932b3
| Description: A complete user-space boot splash system
|  A boot splash program that doesn't require patching the Linux kernel.
|  It paints graphic images directly to framebuffers using libdirectfb.
| Tag: admin::boot, admin::power-management,
| devel::special:not-applicable, field::special:not-applicable,
| filetransfer::special:not-applicable, game::special:not-applicable,
| implemented-in::c, interface::framebuffer,
| mail::special:not-applicable, protocol::special:not-applicable,
| role::program, scope::special:todo, suite::special:not-applicable,
| uitoolkit::special:not-applicable, use::monitor,
| web::special:not-applicable, x11::special:not-applicable

Okay, this looks promising - give 'splashy' a try and let us know how it 
works :)