Hi,
I know that I can change the boot image by simply replacing the file BootLogo.png into another one with the image I want to appear at the startup screen.
But I want this image to be fullscreen size, and I cannot do that, as I don't know where or how to configure it.
So, how do I set a boot image as fullscreen?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
I suspect that you know wrongly. IIRC, the login background picture is in /System/Library/CoreServices/ as the DefaultDesktop.jpg file. Create an image file the same size, give it the same name, move the original somewhere safe (or rename it), rename the new one as DefaultDesktop.jpg, and restart.
Something funny is happening here!
Before testing something (I'll say later) I would say the things below:
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Maybe I haven't expressed myself properly.
I don't want to change the login background picture, I want to change the boot picture (the gray apple that appears at the startup, when you turn on your mac) and its size.
That gray apple file (BootLogo.png) is located at the same place as the DefaultDesktop.jpg file is. See image below.
The point is that I don't know how to change the boot picture size (to fullscreen, for example).
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But just after writing all that, I've thought that this file (BootLogo.png) could habe been created by BootXChanger. So then, I opened that program and set the boot image to the default (the gray apple), deleted that .png file and restarted the computer.
I noticed that the original gray apple appeared at the startup (boot) screen without troubles and that the BootLogo.png file hadn't been restored (as if the OS did not need that file).
After that, I opened the BootXChanger.app to change the boot image again and the BootLogo.png file reappeared.
So, now, I have 2 questions:
- the original one; how do I set a fullscreen boot image?
- and; if the BootLogo.png file doesn't exist, how do I change the boot image without having BootXChanger?
Thanks for clarifying. I just checked and there's no BootLogo.png file in Snow Leopard. As for the spinning gear, all I can point you to is the various gear images. Do a search for gear, type image, and include System files.😀
He wants, got's the making of a Linux geek here for sure. 😉
Andremap,
/System/Library/CoreServices/BootLogo.png is an arbitrary location and name that BootXChanger decided upon, for whatever reason. All the tool does is add the following to the /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist file:
<key>Boot Logo</key>
<string>\System\Library\CoreServices\BootLogo.png</string>
As you can guess, if you edit that file manually, you can put and name your boot logo file any where you want (just use \ instead of / for the path). But, like you, I didn't manage to show it up in full screen, it got resized to about 200px :/
I would imagine that you won't get it to be anything other than 200 px because the display code wasn't designed to show a picture, but the picture. It is likely hard-coded to scale to 200px which is perfect for the Apple pic.
Yeah, .. the bootxchanger developer says "some macs" will display a fullscreen image, but it's anyone's guess what "some" means (hardware, os version, some random parameter in the boot settings, ...)
If the BootXChanger developer says "some macs", I guess there must be a configuration to set a bigger/full screen image, even it is by using the Terminal.
Does anyone knows any command?
Set a fullscreen Boot image
