One wallpaper from GRUB2 boot, to login (wihtout flickering)

I've been usage-testing arch for some time on my netbook-esque laptop (ultraportable?), and I'm happy to say that I have decided to stick with the beast! (Seriously, I lost track of time tweaking my system last night and went to bed in the wee hours of the morning!)
I've decided to take up the task of creating a "seamless" boot setup, while keeping things light -- basically making one background image stick to the screen from the bootup to the start of the x session while trying to avoid showing any. My setup is as follows:
1-- GRUB2 - used to set initial resolution (1366x768x24) and wallpaper (wallpaper.tga)
2-- **** I have all the problems here. I may put Splashscreen-solution: Splashy? fbsplash? Plymouth? ****
3-- SLiM with a modified theme using (a link to) wallpaper.png
4-- Openbox session with wallpaper and desktop icons set by pcmanfm
Currently, after selecting my grub entry, the wallpaper shamelessly disappears and is replaced by a black screen with some arch logos and console output for a moment before abruptly switching over to the all-black console output where all of the boot info is shown. Then it goes to tty login, then SLiM starts up...
I recall 3 times the console output "flickers" and changes: after I leave grub, there's the console with the archlogos, then there's the boot output console, then there's the tty login that waits on SLiM to startup. Can I just set background.png/tga for all of these console backgrounds during boot? (I may possibly remove SLiM if I can do that...) Do I HAVE to install a bootsplash app (like splashy fbsplash or plymouth) to get this desired behavior? If so will those apps set my background during the tty login prompt while SLiM loads up?

It's an old thread, but I can't see it has been solved. My try has been using the following setup: grub2, plymouth, systemd and lightdm.
I've tried to archieve this, using the following options:
/etc/default/grub:
The idea is to boot to tty7, the same as lightdm, so no VT switch makes things "ugly".
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="vt.handoff=7 quiet splash init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd logo.nologo add_efi_memmap"
GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x800x32
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
GRUB_BACKGROUND="/boot/bg.png"
Systemd:
Enable lightdm-plymouth.service unit and disable any other greeter (kdm.service, gdm.service, lightdm.service, etc.)
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf:
greeter-user=lightdm
minimum-display-number=0
minimum-vt=7
run-directory=/run/lightdm
start-default-seat=true
With this setup I'm getting all three flicks, so it's not working as I'd like. I'm using a Dell Latitude E4300 with integrated graphics (Mobile Intel® GM45).

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Last edited by billyburly (2011-08-27 19:48:24)

You are welcome.
Oh, but in your case you also need to remaster iso. (I was think when I test these things directly with qemu, passing arguments -kernel/-initrd/-append )
mkdir -p /tmp/archlinux/{mnt,iso}
mount /path/to/your/archlinux-2011.08.19-core-dual.iso /tmp/archlinux/mnt
cp -a /tmp/archlinux/mnt/* /tmp/archlinux/iso
umount /tmp/archlinux/mnt
Now repack initramfs in /tmp/archlinux/iso/arch/boot/{i686,x86_64}/archiso.img
cd /tmp/archlinux/iso/arch
find -type f ! -name checksum.md5 -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum > checksum.md5
mkisofs -r -l \
-b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \
-uid 0 -gid 0 \
-udf -allow-limited-size -iso-level 3 \
-input-charset utf-8 -p "prepared by mkarchiso" \
-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
-publisher "Arch Linux <http://www.archlinux.org>" \
-A "Arch Linux Live/Rescue CD" \
-V "ARCH_201108" \
-o "/tmp/archlinux/archlinux-2011.08.19-core-dual.iso" "/tmp/archlinux/iso"
isohybrid "/tmp/archlinux/archlinux-2011.08.19-core-dual.iso"
cd /tmp
rm -r /tmp/archlinux/iso
Good Luck.
Last edited by djgera (2011-08-27 23:02:20)

Looking to shave a few more secons from my boot time.

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here is my rc.multi
#!/bin/bash
# /etc/rc.multi
. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions
# Load sysctl variables if sysctl.conf is present
[ -r /etc/sysctl.conf ] && /sbin/sysctl -q -p &>/dev/null
# Start daemons
#for daemon in "${DAEMONS[@]}"; do
# if [ "$daemon" = "${daemon#!}" ]; then
# if [ "$daemon" = "${daemon#@}" ]; then
# start_daemon $daemon
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# start_daemon_bkgd ${daemon:1}
# fi
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dhcpcd eth0 &>/dev/null 2>&1
alsactl restore &
echo 2 > /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/fnmode &
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#/bin/ln -snf /proc/self/fd/0 /dev/stdin
#/bin/ln -snf /proc/self/fd/1 /dev/stdout
#/bin/ln -snf /proc/self/fd/2 /dev/stderr
/bin/ln -snf /proc/kcore /dev/core
/bin/mkdir /dev/pts
/bin/mkdir /dev/shm
echo > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
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/sbin/modprobe processor >/dev/null 2>&1
/sbin/modprobe button >/dev/null 2>&1
/sbin/modprobe battery >/dev/null 2>&1
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echo "********************** REBOOT REQUIRED *********************"
echo "* *"
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echo "* *"
echo "************************************************************"
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echo "* it read-write type: mount -n -o remount,rw / *"
echo "* When you exit the maintenance shell the system will *"
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echo "* *"
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/bin/cat /var/run/random-seed >/dev/urandom
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: > /var/run/utmp
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Last edited by markp1989 (2009-03-21 21:02:07)

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My first two thoughts
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No audio on DVD disc.
Most common origin.
1. Imported audio from iTunes.
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kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/2847d38f-b2f3-46e6-a181-4b8052b3d805 ro
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# (2) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd0,0)
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Thanks in advance for any help
Last edited by neurolysis (2011-02-24 13:06:33)

I have just finished compiling kernel26-one-dev from AUR, the message at the end states:
Add the following entry to /boot/grub/menu.lst:
# (next number) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux ArchOne Devel [/boot/vmlinuz-one-dev]
root (hd0,0)
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I have added this to /boot/grub/menu.lst (with /dev/sda1 changed to /dev/sda2, my /), but when booting it prints the partitions and then hangs with caps lock flashing, and is unresponsive to ctrl-alt-del. I have changed it to match the syntax of the other lines, line I'm using now is:
kernel /vmlinuz-one-dev root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/2847d38f-b2f3-46e6-a181-4b8052b3d805 ro snd_hda_intel.model=acer-aspire
This results in a panic, however, with the message
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I have checked, and the config does indeed support the FS and driver being used:
CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_EXT4_FS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=y
Here is my menu.lst:
# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst
# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS
# Linux Grub
# /dev/fd0 (fd0)
# /dev/sda (hd0)
# /dev/sdb2 (hd1,1)
# /dev/sda3 (hd0,2)
# FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
# ----+--------------------------------------------
# 256 | 0x301=769 0x303=771 0x305=773 0x307=775
# 32K | 0x310=784 0x313=787 0x316=790 0x319=793
# 64K | 0x311=785 0x314=788 0x317=791 0x31A=794
# 16M | 0x312=786 0x315=789 0x318=792 0x31B=795
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# for more details and different resolutions see
# http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_Resolution
# general configuration:
timeout 5
default 0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux ArchOne Devel [/boot/vmlinuz-one-dev]
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-one-dev root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/2847d38f-b2f3-46e6-a181-4b8052b3d805 ro snd_hda_intel.model=acer-aspire
# (1) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/2847d38f-b2f3-46e6-a181-4b8052b3d805 ro
initrd /kernel26.img
# (2) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/2847d38f-b2f3-46e6-a181-4b8052b3d805 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img
# (2) Windows
#title Windows
#rootnoverify (hd0,0)
#makeactive
#chainloader +1
Thanks in advance for any help
Last edited by neurolysis (2011-02-24 13:06:33)

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