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A glint-box community member recently asked me if there was a way to replace the raspberry image that appears in the top-left corner of the screen during boot to something more NES-centric, such as a 1-UP mushroom.

Anyone know where this image is stored, and if it's not some standard format (.gif, .jpg, etc.) what is involved in swapping it out with something else?

jefflunt
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you need to recompile a kernel in order to do that.

  1. create your image with no more than 224 colors, and 80x80px in size.

  2. Save the image as png, and run the following (provided you have netpbm installed and kernel source in /usr/src/linux):

    $ pngtopnm logo.png | ppmquant -fs 223 | pnmtoplainpnm > logo_linux_clut224.ppm

    $ cp logo_linux_clut224.ppm /usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/

  3. recompile and install the new kernel.

Jacobm001
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