Did You Know? that you can that you can source /dev/urandom to randomly generate your secure password? For example to generate 6 characters long password you could: # head -c 6 /dev/urandom | mimencode - this will generate 6 random characters NOTE: - mimencode is part of metamail package
Once the Linux compilation is finished, we can find a new kernel Debian package inside a /usr/src directory. Now simply use dpkg tool to install it into your system.
What we need at this point is to add some more options about bootsplash to GRUB: vga=791 and splash=verbose or splash=silent where silent grub mode completely covers boot messages. Change this section in /boot/grub/menu.lst grub's configuration file:
## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs
## ## Start Default Options ## ## default kernel options ## default kernel options for automagic boot options ## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z ## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted. ## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro ## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro ## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro # kopt=root=/dev/sda1 ro
To this:
## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs
## ## Start Default Options ## ## default kernel options ## default kernel options for automagic boot options ## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z ## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted. ## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro ## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro ## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro # kopt=root=/dev/sda1 vga=791 ro splash=verbose
6.2. Update GRUB to boot with bootsplash
Update GRUB configuration to save its new bootsplash options by command.
update-grub
7. Reboot
All done. Now we are ready to reboot and test bootsplash configuration. Make sure that you choose a new boot splash kernel image after reboot.
8. Making changes to bootsplash
If you decide to make change of your boot splash theme do not forget to update initrd image to apply those changes.
update-initramfs -u
To avoid rebuilding initrd or even rebooting every time you made a change to your boosplash config, this command will change bootsplash on tty6. Once you are happy with the outcome, use update-initramfs to rebuild initrd image.
splash -s -u 5 /path/to/your/config.cfg
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