Customize your boot screen

Nov 16, '01 08:21:30PM

Contributed by: stormcrow

With the help of Keaka (creator of the sweet little LoginBackground app which allows you to change the background of your login screen), I figured out how to change my boot screen as well. It's a pretty simple move:

1. You need to have root access
2. You will need to be able to create and save an image in .pdf form.

All I did was create an image in Photoshop with a size equal to my screen resolution, and saved it as "BootPanel.pdf". Put it in:

/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemStarter/QuartzDisplay.bundle/Resources/

Then reboot the machine. It worked great. Couple of things worth mentioning:

Also, if anyone knows how to set a different font color for the boot-strings I'd love to hear about it. My background preference is black, so it kinda blends in.

If anyone knows how to edit the screen at a deeper level, so that you are editing the actual background, and not just stretching the panel over the top of it, I'd be thrilled :)

-Storm

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