> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 01:43:49 +0000, Al West wrote:
>
> > Does http://www.bootsplash.org/kernel.html shed any light on the matter?
>
> Yes, and no...
>
> See, genkernel 3.0 is supposed to do all this automatically. But, for some
> reason it isn't...
>
> Compare my original text with the last box on that page.
>

I've never used genkernel but genkernel 3.0 is masked meaning it is
developmental and hence not necessarily in working order. So 'broken and
buggy' should not be an unexpected outcome.. things are usually masked for
a reason! I think from your original post you said you are using a 2.6.*
kernel which is also masked in the portage tree. To assume that a masked
Gentoo specific tool will work on a masked kernel is asking a bit much
don't you think? Basically you need to know how to do the following
things to get bootsplash working:

1) patch the kernel source
2) build your own kernel
3) create a (ram disk) initrd for your bootimage (or run the
splash script from http://www.bootsplash.org/kernel.html )
4) modify your grub/lilo config file appropriately (add
initrd=/path/to/initrd)

Actually the instructions are reasonably straight forward at
http://www.bootsplash.org/kernel.html so give it a crack. They show you
how to patch the kernel and you can learn how to build your own by
following the Gentoo installation instructions. Good luck.

Cheers,
Jason