Displaying an image during boot

Post date: Apr 30, 2015 10:36:12 AM

Displaying an image during boot instead of the default command line scrolling text

This is based on the guide here. 

This solution works but there are a few seconds of text shown before the boot image appears.

Install fbi

sudo apt-get install fbi

Copy the splashscreen image to be used

Copy your custom splash image into: /etc/ and name it "splash.png".

Presumably the resolution to use is 1920x1080px.

Create A Script

sudo nano

Paste the following into the text editor:

#! /bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides:          asplashscreen # Required-Start: # Required-Stop: # Should-Start:       # Default-Start:     S # Default-Stop: # Short-Description: Show custom splashscreen # Description:       Show custom splashscreen ### END INIT INFO   do_start () {      /usr/bin/fbi -T 1 -noverbose -a /etc/splash.png         exit 0 }  case "$1" in   start|"")     do_start     ;;   restart|reload|force-reload)     echo "Error: argument '$1' not supported" >&2     exit 3     ;;   stop)     # No-op     ;;   status)     exit 0     ;;   *)     echo "Usage: asplashscreen [start|stop]" >&2     exit 3     ;; esac  :

IMPORTANT – If copying and pasting via SSH check it has pasted in correctly (pasting via FiseSSH for us caused the # lines and the esac line to be altered and need modifying back to be correct)

Exit and save the file as: /etc/init.d/asplashscreen

(using a name starting with 'a' will ensure it runs first)

Finally make the script executable and install it for init mode:

sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/asplashscreen sudo insserv /etc/init.d/asplashscreen

Thats it:

sudo reboot

Getting Out Of Black Screen

If you get a black screen at the end of booting (if you've not setup auto running the GUI etc) use CTRL + ALT + F2 to get the command prompt