Re: "Early" boot splash/boot text possible?

[gr2 . ml]

> I'd like to display an image or at least a text line like "Please wait..." 
> during this period, as I've encountered users of this
> system who think something is wrong and press reset or even switch it off and 
> on again. After the kernel has loaded, I want to see
> the normal kernel messages.
>
>
> Is there really no way of doing this with grub2? Not even a single line of text 
> until the kernel takes over?
Did you try just using echo? Something like:

menuentry "Boot linux" {
  echo "Please wait..."
  linux /path/to/vmlinuz options...
  initrd /path/to/initrd.gz
}

Good luck, keep us informed :-)
Yves.

> Cheers, Michael