Late Christmas present: Multi Boot Wallpapers
 

Along with working on a better N800 busybox, I've been messing a bit with kernel images, initfs, and multi boot configs. As part of that, to help me know which root image I'm using, I made up some wallpapers to replace the default "Nokia hands" image shown after the initial "Nokia" screen. No offense to Nokia - I appreciate the work they do for Open Source, but I really don't like ads on my own computer. . . So I've replaced the Nokia images with something a little more pleasing to the eye.

I replaced the "Nokia hands" image with three different images in each of the three root filesystems I'm using. There are 3 ext2 partitions, one for each N800 memory device. Each image is different and there are little signs on each image to show which memory device I'm using.

I have posted these three images on my Maemo Page. Feel free to use them as you wish...

Merry Xmas!

Re: Late Christmas present: Multi Boot Wallpapers
 

If only I would know how to change those..

I have only used GUI. dont know anything of linux itself.

But Amiga WB http://www.extremzertifikator.de/bilder/amigaHand.gif
sure would be nice :)

Re: Late Christmas present: Multi Boot Wallpapers
 

It would be nice if there was GUI interfaced program that could be used to change some ´underground´ settings like boot image that are normaly cusmomized with terminal. :)

Re: Late Christmas present: Multi Boot Wallpapers
 

I agree. It seems Nokia has an XML config which changes the Nokia images to something else for "custom branding purposes." It's not documented, though, and I didn't have time to mess with it. So I simply renamed the existing boot wallpapers. I also resized and altered a TUX image a bit to replace the Nokia one which appears on bootup before the "hands" and at powerdown. There's still another identical "Nokia" one in the bootloader. I haven't figured out a way to alter that, but Fanoush's boot menu seems to help it disappear :D

I will post the TUX image soon on my Maemo page with instructions on how to use it.

What would be really nice would be an init script that could be made which would alter the boot image and say which device is being used as root. It should be relatively simple to implement. You could use it to specify the boot wallpapers and to show the root device. A simple terminal script would be sufficient. Then, if someone made a GUI for it, the GUI could interface with the underlying script. It appears, from the looks of the XML init for the boot screens, that Nokia already has such a GUI for the control panel that they haven't made publically available. Maybe someone should submit a request :)