[cotdagoo]

howdy all,

been a long time xbox user that just made the jump to win32. having said that, i'm quite used to seeing an xbmc logo while starting up my xbox - and the windows xp loading screen can be an eye-sore while booting.

i tried some utils like bootskins - but only resulted in a bsod when it tried to load a custom bootscreen or 'skin'.

doing some more searching, i found you could add a couple parameter's to windows boot.ini and have it substitute a 640x480 16-color bitmap of your own choosing/design with the normal windows loading screen.

the following is what i added to my boot.ini :

before:
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

after:
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /bootlogo /noguiboot

once you've done that, place a 16-color bitmap with 640x480 resolution named boot.bmp in your C:\WINDOWS\ directory and reboot. if all you get is a blank screen, your image may not be 16-colors - you can open an image in mspaint and save it as a 16-color bitmap to ensure it is in the correct format.

the best part about this is that it's non-destructive to your boot process, doesn't modify any kernel files, etc.. looks great when your htpc boots right into xbmc too!

here's the image i'm currently using - http://www.sendspace.com/file/wcqqks

cheers

[empty]

Great, Thanks a lot, I know only the kernel-mod method
Here is my Version

[SlaveUnit]

Bootskin has some nice ones actually. For XP I am using this one. But there are lots of movie ones that computer up pretty nice for a boot screen.

http://www.wincustomize.com/zoom.aspx?sk...6&libid=32

Strange that you got a BSOD from it.

Even this one looks nice....
http://www.wincustomize.com/zoom.aspx?sk...3&libid=32

[cotdagoo]

gave it another shot

bmp - http://www.sendspace.com/file/xsrf94

[VictorV]

Hello. I stumbled over this thread as I was creating some bootscreens of my own, so I thought I'd share 'em with you.





Download:
http://prosjektet.net/xbmc/bootscreen.7z

[VictorV]

4bit/16 color version:
http://prosjektet.net/xbmc/bootlogo4bit.7z

[tatoosh]

can i change the bootlogo in windows7 too ??

[Fascix]

Okey i like to have a xbmc logo on the boot screen so i thought i make my own
using the method where i make a boot.bmp and chanege some parameters in boot.ini

but i cant figgure out why my pictures really look "16 colors" and other people make nice boot screens looking "256 colors" or more

i have to save the file as 16 color BMP in paint right after i am done?
This is what it looks like now.... Like hell


a bit confused to how other ppl do this an got it working

guide me please