I remebered having an animated lilo bootsplash (xray-blue) several years ago and decided that I want to check if it's still possible.
After some time I found that there's a site with it but the problem was that it was some specially patched lilo version, so I had to find it first.
Then I had to change liloinst.sh like that (so it won't overwrite my custom lilo.conf with message):
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#!/bin/bash
# This script will make almost ANY partition bootable, regardless the filesystem
# used on it. bootsyslinux.sh/bootinst.bat is only for FAT filesystems, while this one should
# work everywhere. Moreover it setups a 'changes' directory to be used for
# persistent changes.
portdir=`pwd`/../../porteus
bootdir=`pwd`/..
set -e
TARGET=""
MBR=""
# Check md5sums before we start
if [ ! -d $portdir ]; then
echo "Please enter the path to your porteus directory:"
echo "For example: /mnt/sda5/porteus"
read portdir
fi
cd $portdir
sh chkbase.sh
cd $bootdir
# Find out which partition or disk are we using
MYMNT=$(cd -P $(dirname $0) ; pwd)
while [ "$MYMNT" != "" -a "$MYMNT" != "." -a "$MYMNT" != "/" ]; do
TARGET=$(egrep "[^[:space:]]+[[:space:]]+$MYMNT[[:space:]]+" /proc/mounts | cut -d " " -f 1)
if [ "$TARGET" != "" ]; then break; fi
MYMNT=$(dirname "$MYMNT")
done
if [ "$TARGET" = "" ]; then
echo "Can't find device to install to."
echo "Make sure you run this script from a mounted device."
exit 1
fi
if [ "$(cat /proc/mounts | grep "^$TARGET" | grep noexec)" ]; then
echo "The disk $TARGET is mounted with noexec parameter, trying to remount..."
mount -o remount,exec "$TARGET"
fi
clear
echo "-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-"
echo " Backup Mother Boot Record "
echo "-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-"
echo
echo "Would you like to backup the MBR of $TARGET now?"
echo "[36m(backing up is recommended)""[0m"
echo "Press [y/n]"
read bup
if [ "$bup" = "y" ]; then
dd if=$TARGET of=$MYMNT/mbr.bak bs=512 count=1
echo
echo "Backup of mbr is now at $MYMNT/mbr.bak"
echo "Instructions to restore an MBR in the case of overwriting"
echo "can be found in boot/docs/restore-mbr.txt"
echo
echo "Press enter to continue"
read abook
fi
MBR=$(echo "$TARGET" | sed -r "s/[0-9]+\$//g")
NUM=$(echo "$TARGET" | sed s^$MBR^^)
cd "$MYMNT"
# only partition is allowed, not the whole disk
if [ "$MBR" = "$TARGET" ]; then
echo "Error: You must install your system to a partition, not the whole disk"
exit 1
fi
clear
echo "-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-="
echo " Welcome to Porteus boot installer "
echo "-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-="
echo
echo "This installer will setup disk $TARGET to boot only Porteus."
if [ "$MBR" != "$TARGET" ]; then
echo
echo "[31mWarning!""[0m"
echo "Master boot record MBR of $MBR will be overwritten."
echo
echo "[36mIf you use $MBR to boot any existing operating system, it will not"
echo "work anymore.[0m Only Porteus will boot from this device. Be careful!"
echo "If you made a backup of your MBR it is at $MYMNT/mbr.bak"
echo "Read the file boot/docs/restore-mbr.txt"
echo
echo "[31mNotice!""[0m"
echo "When you are installing Porteus on writable media like usb stick/hard drive"
echo "with FAT or NTFS filesystems, you need to use a save.dat container"
echo "to save persistent changes. This is not necessary if you are saving your"
echo "changes to a linux partition. You can create a save.dat container file"
echo "using the Porteus save.dat Manager tool or Porteus Settings Assistant,"
echo "both of which are available from the KDE or LXDE menu, under the 'System'"
echo "heading. Booting will continue in 'Always Fresh' mode, until a save.dat"
echo "file is created and referenced in your /boot/porteus.cfg file."
echo "[36mYou have been notified!""[0m"
fi
echo
echo "Press any key to continue, or Ctrl+C to abort..."
read junk
clear
echo "Flushing filesystem buffers, this may take a while..."
sync
if [ ! -f $MYMNT/boot/lilo.conf ]
then
cat << ENDOFTEXT >$MYMNT/boot/lilo.conf
boot=$MBR
prompt
#timeout=100
large-memory
lba32
compact
change-rules
reset
install=menu
menu-scheme = Wb:Yr:Wb:Wb
menu-title = "Porteus Boot-Manager"
default = "KDE"
# kde
image=$MYMNT/boot/vmlinuz
initrd=$MYMNT/boot/initrd.xz
label= "KDE"
vga=791
append = "autoexec=xconf;telinit~4 changes=/porteus"
# lxde
image=$MYMNT/boot/vmlinuz
initrd=$MYMNT/boot/initrd.xz
label= "LXDE"
vga=791
append = "lxde autoexec=xconf;telinit~4 changes=/porteus"
# fresh
image=$MYMNT/boot/vmlinuz
initrd=$MYMNT/boot/initrd.xz
label= "Always_Fresh"
append = "nomagic autoexec=xconf;telinit~4"
# cp2ram
image=$MYMNT/boot/vmlinuz
initrd=$MYMNT/boot/initrd.xz
label= "Copy_To_RAM"
vga=791
append = "copy2ram autoexec=xconf;telinit~4"
# startx
image=$MYMNT/boot/vmlinuz
initrd=$MYMNT/boot/initrd.xz
label= "VESA_mode"
append = "autoexec=telinit~4 changes=/porteus"
# text
image=$MYMNT/boot/vmlinuz
initrd=$MYMNT/boot/initrd.xz
label="Text_mode"
append = ""
# pxe
image=$MYMNT/boot/vmlinuz
initrd=$MYMNT/boot/initrd.xz
label= "PXE_server"
append = "autoexec=pxe-boot;xconf;telinit~4"
# plop
image=$MYMNT/boot/syslinux/plpbt
label= "PLoP"
# memtest
image=$MYMNT/boot/tools/mt86p
label = "Memtest"
# Windows?
#other = /dev/sda1
#label = "First_partition"
ENDOFTEXT
fi
echo "Updating MBR to setup boot record..."
./boot/syslinux/lilo -v -C $MYMNT/boot/lilo.conf -S $MYMNT/boot/lilo.boot -m $MYMNT/boot/lilo.map
echo "Disk $MBR should be bootable now. Installation finished."
echo
echo "Read the information above and then press any key to exit..."
read junk Booted to Porteus 1.1rc1 32 bits (abovementioned lilo was compiled with dynamically linked libraries so it won't work on 64 bit system).
Backuped old lilo from /boot syslinux/lilo and placed new binary there
Ran patched liloinst.sh first time to generate default lilo.conf file, commented out line
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message=/mnt/sda2/boot/splash/xray-blue.boot Ran liloinst.sh a second time.
And voila!
Well, after that I've rebooted, changed lilo.conf to get rid of /mnt/sda2 so everything pointed to /boot/ instead but that required tweaked liloinst.sh
And that's the end to this necrophylic/masochistic adventure.
I wasn't able to get patched sources anywhere to try to compile static lilo binaries. If anybody knows something, please post it!
