Moonbase

Upgraded from Hoary to Breezy, but miss the snazzy splash screen that comes with a fresh Breezy install? Here’s the deal:

The splash screen is provided by a package called usplash, which for whatever reason doesn’t get pulled in by a dist-upgrade. It runs from initrd, and (if present) is automatically included in the initrd for every newly installed kernel.

Step 1: install usplash

sudo apt-get install usplash

Step 2: update initrds for existing kernels (optional)

If you want your currently installed kernels to be usplash-enabled, regenerate their initrds using dpkg-reconfigure.

For example, to usplash-ify an installed linux-image-2.6.12-10-powerpc:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.12-10-powerpc