change bootsplash screen for ubuntu 8.10

In the Ubuntu8.10 version has some problems to change the boot splash screen, when ever I tries to change the splash screen I get errors related to the “resource busy“, that means I have doubt about installed packages related to the splash screen So that’s why I have downloaded some new version splash files and I uninstalled the existing one and I followed this procedure to change the splash screen at the time of booting, the command for removing existing packages “sudo aptitude remove usplash --purge“.

links for latest Version:

Lib files

Splash Files

1. After uninstalling the splash packages install the latest version files, the commands for latest version.

First install the lib package

sudo dpkg -i libsplashy1_0.3.10-1_i386.deb

Second splash package

sudo dpkg -i splashy_0.3.10-1_i386.deb

After installing new packages, our changing boot splash screen process starts…

First we have to modify the menu.lst, the menu.lst path ” /boot/grub/menu.lst“.this is the file has the information related to the booting and grub information, this is very sensitive operaton so we have to take the backup this file before modyfication, after tacking backup search for the below line…

“kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=3dca6051-5877-438c-94c5-f5ff7803d851 ro quiet splash”

modify the above line to

“kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=3dca6051-5877-438c-94c5-f5ff7803d851 ro quiet splash vga=791”

here just we added only this “vga=791”

now update the grub with this following command

“sudo update-grub”

Actually there are many other ways to do this work, but I prefer console then only I can explore some of the things like the grub and boot related information lies at menu.lst, if you don’t want to take risk use bootup manager, that is a Gui tool to do this work