Backtrack 2 final bootloader question.

[GelflingEH]

Please help me out here.

I have installed BT2 final on a laptop with windows XP on hda1.
I managed to get them in dual boot mode with lilo without any problem.
Now this is my question:

After installing BT2final, I saw a new bootloader with a nice backtrack 2 logo. The only choise there was: BT.
I had only 3 seconds to choose in that screen. Now where can I adjust/modify the conf file of this nice bootloader? The lilo works just fine, but I rather use the Backtrack 2 final boot loader.

Is there any guru out there to point me to the right man page, or forum tread please?

[madmanu]

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As far as I know the bootloader is still Lilo, and the nice background you get is splash.bmp, which you can change at will. You should find it at /boot

If an older member sees this thread, I'm guessing a new member status for you..

[GelflingEH]

Thanks for the quick reply, i will check it out immediately. Just looked very different from the red lilo box. Also I couldn't see the bt in the lilo.conf. A bit confusing. I'll let you know.

[GelflingEH]

Yes! it did the trick for me! I manually edited the original lilo.conf of BT2final. Preformed a "lilo -v" and my windows XP in shown below BT! Just what I wanted. I'm just feeling like a kid who got some candy.. :)

[lostone]

could u explain how u did that plz, thank you

[CodilX]

what didn't you understand?

[lostone]

how to get the other look instead of the red box and how he change the settings on it.

[CodilX]

how about google?
http://legroom.net/howto/splash

[lostone]

thx, ya i shoulda tried sry bout that

[GelflingEH]

Now for the ones who don't know where to look, here is my lilo.conf.
I'm not gonna reply on the pm's seperately.

I did a fresh install of xp.
On another partition i installed a full btf.
edited lilo.conf as shown below.
performed a lilo -v to write settings in the mbr.

Here is the conf. Please be careful, this is my config. Not yours. Just edit your own and make no mistakes. You could corrupt your lilo boot and then you have to install BTF all over again.

boot = /dev/sda
prompt
timeout = 50
bitmap=/boot/splash.bmp
change-rules
reset
vga = 0x317
default = WindowsXP
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda6
initrd = /boot/splash.initrd
label = BackTrack
read-only
other = /dev/sda1
label = WindowsXP
table = /dev/sda

[Willy_Pinguino]

a wrong configuration in lilo config isn't a insormontable problem...

for example:

if you set a wrong partition for the boot, you can add an option comand on boot after select the SO to start...

in my config I have on hda1 Win xp and on hda2 BT2beta. in "a momentary lap of reason" I have changed the lilo.conf to use hda3 to boot BT2beta (hda3 in my sistem is a ntfs partition...) and in the next reboot I have a kernel panic message...

after 5 minutes of real panic, I reboot in win (fortunately it's works) found the page where I copy the wrong code of lilo.conf and see my error... and found on google the solution:

select BT2 on lilo menu on boot menu (after reboot obviusly) and digit

EDIT: if you have the red square menu in lilo, you can only type the code;
in the other cases, you must pres TAB key to enter in interactive comand line, and type the same code

root=/dev/hda2
and it boot in my BT installation without problems... after that obviusly i re-edit lilo.conf and run lilo to rewrite the correct setup...


in finaly, if you can understand your error, you can correct it :p :p


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Sorry for my maccheronic-english... I'm italian at the finish :D :D

[tparnet]

Now for the ones who don't know where to look, here is my lilo.conf.
I'm not gonna reply on the pm's seperately.

I did a fresh install of xp.
On another partition i installed a full btf.
edited lilo.conf as shown below.
performed a lilo -v to write settings in the mbr.

Here is the conf. Please be careful, this is my config. Not yours. Just edit your own and make no mistakes. You could corrupt your lilo boot and then you have to install BTF all over again.

boot = /dev/sda
prompt
timeout = 50
bitmap=/boot/splash.bmp
change-rules
reset
vga = 0x317
default = WindowsXP
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda6
initrd = /boot/splash.initrd
label = BackTrack
read-only
other = /dev/sda1
label = WindowsXP
table = /dev/sda

Thanks for the posting (I was one of the ones who PM'ed you on this). I guess my confusion is based on the "bitmap" setting. I currently have the default RED lilo bootloader background and want to switch it over to the BT2 background. However, when i look in /etc/bootsplash/themes/Linux/images/, all the files are .jpgs. I have looked on line and could not find another setting to specify a boot jpg instead of boot bmp. Anyone willing to share how they used the default backtrack jpgs to work with lilo? Thanks.

tparnet

[GelflingEH]

Lilo does need a BMP image.
It is not to be found in your /etc/.... folder.
Just look in the root into the /boot/ folder.
my guess is that you can copy/paste the line if you preformed a full BTF installation.