[ltp] IBM Thinkpad BMPs

[Eben King]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, kain wrote:

> Eben King wrote:
> > My T40's boot screen says "IBM" and something about F12, no mention of 
> > Centrino.  I also have access to a T41 which says "IBM" and _does_ mention 
> > Centino, but as I rarely use it I'm not sure of its specifics.  Would either 
> > of these do?  If so, how do I extract the BIOS?
> 
> Thanks for your response, that's the problem, I know how to flash a bios 
> to put a custom bootscreen, as seen on ThinkWiki, but I really have no 
> idea how to extract those images.
> If you download a bios .exe from IBM and then use cabextract to extract 
>  .BIN files and you mount it, you will see that there's no BMP in there, 
> just a .scr and .mod file.

I suppose you could run them (the .scr and .mod files) through od -t 1x and
then grep for the BMP header.

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