How to change bootsplash in Backtrack 4 Final?

[austin_ckt]

Hi
I've installed BT4 Final & the default bootsplash works fine.
But , i want to use my custom bootsplash for BT4 Final.
I tried following things, but it did'nt work for me.

1-> copied source from the link to splash.c & then compiled it.
hXXp://bootsplash.sourcearchive.com/documentation/3.3/splash_8c-source.html
root@bt:~# gcc -o splash splash.c

2-> backedup original bootsplash
root@bt:~# mv -i /opt/bootsplash/bootsplash /opt/bootsplash/bootsplashold

3-> made a link to bootsplash dir in /etc/
root@bt:~# root@bt:~# ln -s /opt/bootsplash /etc/bootsplash
4-> made My new bootsplash
root@bt:~# ./splash -s -f /etc/bootsplash/themes/mysplash/config/bootsplash-1024x768.cfg >> /etc/bootsplash/bootsplash
root@bt:~# fix-splash
root@bt:~# reboot

I still get the default bootsplash, Please help me with this guys.
Thanks in Advance.

[Warlord711]

Try this:

apt-get install splashy usplash startupmanager

Then run

startupmanager

[igor988]

Hi...

im trying to install startupmanager but i cant...
when i type " apt-get install splashy usplash startupmanager" it give mi a errors...

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
startupmanager is already the newest version.
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kdebase-workspace: Depends: kdebase-workspace-bin (>= 4:4.1.4-0ubuntu1~intrepid3.1) but it is not going to be installed
kscreensaver: Depends: kdebase-workspace-bin but it is not going to be installed
kscreensaver-xsavers: Depends: kdebase-workspace-bin but it is not going to be installed
splashy: Depends: libdirectfb-1.0-0 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libsplashy1 but it is not going to be installed
Conflicts: usplash but 0.5.25 is to be installed
startupmanager: Depends: python-support (>= 0.90.0) but 0.8.4 is to be installed
Depends: yelp but it is not going to be installed
usplash: Depends: libusplash0 (>= 0.5.13) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: usplash-theme-ubuntu but it is not going to be installed or
usplash-theme
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

so ... what i need to do ? to install and run startup manager? Thanks.

[laptopz]

Most likely you will render your systems unusable and then NOBODY will help you fix them. Still if you believe you know what you`re doing here are a few hints :

1. Images must be 640x480
2. Contain no more than 16 colors
3. Be in gzipped xpm format
4. The gimp can be used to resize (image->scale image..), reduce colors (image->mode->indexed..), and can save to .xpm.gz format.

A. to configure manually:
when you have created the image add a line like

splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

to your menu.lst. Usefull trick is creating a symlink to the actual image named splash.xpm.gz

cd /boot/grub
sudo ln -s my_favourite_image.xpm.gz splash.xpm.gz

Grub loads the image from the disk upon boot-it is not stored in the MBR. If you use a symlink, you will not have to edit menu.lst and reinstall grub to change the image, you just have to change the symlink. Make sure any symlink does not point to a file on another partition, for instance if you have /boot on a separate partition.

B. with update-grub
update-grub will automatically pick up /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz and configure menu.lst. It will find the correct hdX and partition number (no need to type (hd0,4)).

sudo apt-get install grub-splashimages #collection of splash images
sudo ln -s /boot/grub/splashimages/my_favourite_image.xpm.gz /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
sudo update-grub