[ltp] Replacing the bios bootsplash?

Cougar linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:02:26 +0200 (EET)


On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Joachim Breitner wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Am Donnerstag, den 04.11.2004, 09:32 +0200 schrieb Cougar:
> > It looks also for me that normally lcreflsh.bat modification is not 
> > necessary but I tried for any case. I created logo.mod without any 
> > problem. Tried later to create it in Windows and got exaxtly the same 
> > file. But flashing utility doesn't show anything about replacing logo.
> > 
> > Btw, can it be the problem that I don't have logo.bmp itself in the boot 
> > media? 640x480 bitmap is too big to fit into boot floppy.
> Might be. It fitted in my case, though.
> 
> > > > Tried also this but with no success. I can update bios to 3.12 but logo 
> > > > remains the original. Joachim, which version of BIOS you wer using?
> > > 1ruj26ud.exe is what I installed.
> > 
> > Thats strange. I have the same file here..
> > 
> > Any other hints? Can you post me your floppy image?
> Would probably not be legal and I don't want the list archives be
> illegal. But here are the md5sums:

All files had the same MD5. And yes, it is important that the logo.bmp is 
also saved to the boot floppy.

Many thanks again. If anyone like to make a howto somwehere like thinkwiki 
or smthg then please note it also ;-)

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Cougar