Cute little Easter Egg for all you openSUSE fans - display a super secret welcome screen!
The step are pretty easy, actually. Do all the following steps as root:
$ cp /boot/message /root/message.backux
$ mkdir /root/bootmsg
$ cd /root/bootmsg
$ cpio -i < /boot/message
$ vi gfxboot.cfg
Edit :
# penguin theme likelihood in percent; -1 = auto
penguin=99
$ find | cpio -o > /boot/message
The /boot/message file is in an archaic file format. The cpio command is almost unused in today’s arsenal of weapons, having been superseded a long time ago by tar. Heck, it doesn’t even take filenames from the command line, but rather requires them to be fed in via standard input (thus the bizarre use of the ‘find’ command to put all the files back together).
In my openSUSE 10.2 installation, the penguin was set at 1 and I remember being startled by that welcome screen! But on the 10.3 system, it is set to zero, so it will never show up. Wonder if I should report it as a bug?
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