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Replace the Ubuntu Plymouth Boot Screen with an XBMC one
January 12, 2012 Scott Howell Leave a comment Go to comments
So you have setup and installed XBMCLive to your HTPC and you have the purple Ubuntu boot screen,
ever thought you could make it look a bit more relevant to your XBMC install.
Well now you can by installing a pretty XBMC one. Found this info a while ago and thought I would
share it with you all. So lets get started on making the boot up of your XBMC machine so much nicer.
NOTE: The below may break the plymouth boot screen completely and I will not be held responsible
for any of the below doing so, as this is information I have found to work for my system.
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To install the XBMC boot screen logo, enter the following via the console by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F1 or
SSHing to your box:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install plymouth-label v86d
sudo wget http://excyle.nl/plymouth-theme-xbmc-logo.deb
sudo dpkg -i plymouth-theme-xbmc-logo.deb
Now we need to change the default GRUB config to use a higher resolution. Please ensure that your video
card can handle this resolution otherwise this will not work.
You can change this if you like also.
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
Once this is open you need to add the below in blue at the end of the line with
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and GRUB_GFXMODE:
Press Ctrl + X to exit then press Y to save.
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet...level=0
video=uvesafb:mode_option=1366x768-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap"
GRUB_GFXMODE=1366x768
Now we need to update the Initramfs-Module:
sudo nano /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
Add the below to the last line of this file:
uvesafb mode_option=1366x768-24 mtrr=3 scroll=ywrap
Lastly we need to edit the splash file to enable the FrameBuffer:
sudo nano /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash
Enter the below into this file:
FRAMEBUFFER=y
Finally update GRUB and initramfs to use the new files that have been changed:
sudo update-grub
sudo update-initramfs -u
Reboot to see your brand new Boot Screen:
sudo reboot
It should have gone from the purple Ubuntu one to the new black and silver XBMC one.
I hope this has helped to make your XBMC machine nice and flashy
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