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xuehuichao

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Registered: 2008-01-15

Posts: 11

I got stuck in Gensplash

Hi all,

I want to make a bootsplash, but after 2 days kernel compilation, I am kind of desperate now...

I first copied kernel26 from /var/abs/core/base/ to my home directory, the kernel's version is 2.6.23.12. Then after reading the wiki page for gensplash, I have added http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/f … -rc7.patch
into PKGBUILD's source list. During the makepkg process, I used "make gconfig" to manually change the settings according to that wiki page. Then a kernel was built, and I used "pacman -U kernel26-2.6.23.12-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz" to install it on my PC. Packages of fbsplash project was downloaded and built locally. After following all the instructions posted on fbsplash's wikipage, I have modified the configuration files so they are as below:

/boot/grub/menu.lst

title  Arch
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda6 vga=792 video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap splash=silent,kdgraphics,theme:darch console=tty1 quiet
initrd /kernel26.img

/etc/mkinitcpio.conf

HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata keymap filesystems fbsplash"
FBTHEMES="darch"
FBRES="1024x768"

/etc/rc.conf

DAEMONS=(fbsplash syslog-ng network netfs crond kdm hal alsa httpd mysqld)
SPLASH=""

After rebooting, I got the kernel panic as below:

Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0)

The splash can been seen now, and it can boot normally when changing grub's configuration into:

title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda6 ro
initrd /kernel26.img

I have been trying to tackle it down by reading articles all over the internet, but still I am stuck this. Could you please give me some suggestions to solve it? Thank you.

Eradest

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-07-18

Posts: 56

Re: I got stuck in Gensplash

just to be sure, your kernel is /vmlinuz26 and not /boot/vmlinuz26 and accordingly for the image?

and try adding the "ro" to the kernel line in the "splash", that's the only difference to the working one as far as i can see

Last edited by Eradest (2008-01-15 19:17:04)

xuehuichao

Member

Registered: 2008-01-15

Posts: 11

Re: I got stuck in Gensplash

No, it won't work...

dmax

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Registered: 2006-10-21

Posts: 58

Re: I got stuck in Gensplash

I have same problem

G.

Member

Registered: 2008-04-04

Posts: 4

Re: I got stuck in Gensplash

I think that you must add in /etc/rc.conf

SPLASH="fbsplash"