Animated LILO boot screen: xray-blue

This is the second animated boot screen that I created. It is derived from xray-green with the addition of a rotating fan that I created using the GFig plug-in. Instead of using a green gradient, I used the blue gradient provided below. I also changed some minor details in the image and in the script.

Features

• Video mode: 640x480, 256 colors (VESA)
• Animations:
  • progress bar (timeout)
  • hard disk motor
  • two flashing lights
  • rotating fan
• License: GPL

Downloads

xray-blue.boot.gz (181 KB)

This is the compiled boot screen, ready to be used by the version of LILO included in SuSE Linux 7.3. This is the only file that you need if you do not intend to modify the animations. It has been compressed with gzip, so you need to gunzip it before installing it. See the help page for installation instructions.

Sources

Files used for compiling the boot screen (using mkbootmsg):

• xray-blue.config (17 KB)
  The script that defines how the graphical menus are drawn and how the animations are displayed. It requires the following PCX file and font file.
• xray-blue.pcx (293 KB)
  The 640x554 PCX image that is displayed on the screen and contains the various elements of the animation.
• fixed_10x20 (4 KB)
  The font file (bitmap) used for displaying text in the menus.

Source files used for creating the image xray-blue.pcx:

• xray-gray-1600x900.xcf.gz (803 KB)
  A 1600x900 grayscale XCF file containing all parts of the animation. (the same file is also used by xray-green).
• xray-blue.xcf.gz (796 KB)
  A 640x554 color XCF file derived from the previous one. This file can be flattened and converted to indexed mode to produce the PCX file.
• X_Ray_blue (0.3 KB)
  A GIMP gradient file to be used with the Gradient Map plug-in.