Hi. Just wondering about how bootsplash setup works exactly. See, when I updated to kernel -21mdk, I didn't get a bootsplash anymore. Yesterday I happened to look into this a bit, and noticed that my initrd was much smaller than the -20mdk one; I guessed it didn't have a bootsplash image in. So I found /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash, and noticed it was set to 'auto'. I verified using mkinitrd manually that, with this setup, it didn't generate a bootsplash image in the initrd. I then changed it to '800x600' (to force a bootsplash to be included), re-ran mkinitrd, and got a larger initrd with a bootsplash included; replaced the old smaller one in /boot with the new one, and it worked fine on bootup. The other thing I changed during this was lilo.conf; I changed the -21mdk entry from using vga=normal to vga=788, I don't know if this is related.
So I guess my question is - what does the auto setting do? Why does it decide not to generate a bootsplash on my system, even though when I generate one myself it works OK? Thanks! (Now to upgrade to .22mdk...hehe) -- adamw
