Custom Boot Panels

[thecow]

How do you change the text?

 

[PlaceofDis]

i really like that blue one that was posted earlier, now i just need to get a good pic of Angelena Jolie so i can have a great boot panel of my favorite gal

 

[edesignuk]

i really like that blue one that was posted earlier, now i just need to get a good pic of Angelena Jolie so i can have a great boot panel of my favorite gal

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/36275/

 

[kettle]

login panel?

Anyone successfully installed a custom login panel?

I'd find a custom login much more useful. please don't just link to resexcellence and say duh, I'm interested if anyone has actually got a simple solution under 10.3...

 

[virividox]

yeah i dont feel all that comfy messing witht that stuff

 

[Platform]

PDF is here.

Now the REAL good once are starting to come

Good work

 

[gallagb]

kinda surprised...

while i have no artistic Nor photoshop ability

i'm very surprised that there have only been about 6 of these Custom Boot Panels put on here

usually by now i'd expect a lot more- for example when we do the Desktop's of the month there are usually 8 pages by the end of the month- & every 2-3 posts is someone's image

this Thread has hardly no images- when it was made to put images up-

wonder why-
people think this is dumb?
not enough folks got into it?
just courious.

 

[kettle]

while i have no artistic Nor photoshop ability

i'm very surprised that there have only been about 6 of these Custom Boot Panels put on here

usually by now i'd expect a lot more- for example when we do the Desktop's of the month there are usually 8 pages by the end of the month- & every 2-3 posts is someone's image

this Thread has hardly no images- when it was made to put images up-

wonder why-
people think this is dumb?
not enough folks got into it?
just courious.

That's why I was asking about login panels. I hardly ever see my boot up panel, why would I bother messing with it.

Anyone with good login results I'd love to know the best tactic.

 

[damgpro]

I was able to replace my login with my custom bootpanel (https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/1310218/) succesfully with the tutorial that was posted earlier. Only problem was that it only worked when I have the Users settings for login set to display name and password not the list of users.

If you follow that guide at Resexcellence it works fine, I didn't have any problems. The guide goes through all the steps. I just saved the pdf file as the applelogo.tif so I used the same image and followed the rest of the steps.

 

[PlaceofDis]

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/36275/

thank you, you are my hero e

 

[Daveway]

They are taken from that website!!!!

Come again. Not quite sure what you mean. I forget where I got them from. I've had these for awhile now.

 

[tonyeck]

Come again. Not quite sure what you mean. I forget where I got them from. I've had these for awhile now.

Sorry mate, thought you were claiming them as your own build... My bad, I spologise

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

(How did I miss this thread back in March...???)

I made these, based on the LOTR desktops from pixelhuset.se (I think I psted them once before, far out in one of the monthly desktop image threads). If you want any of the original pdf's (instead of just converting these) PM me...

 

[snkTab]

Great job Mitthrawnuruodo.

 

[millar876]

any ideas on how 2 do it in 10.4

im stumped cos

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

dont seem to exist

 

[Flying Llama]

any ideas on how 2 do it in 10.4

im stumped cos

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

dont seem to exist

Something terrible has gone with customizing boot panels in 10.4... it's no longer a simple swap of PDFs, it's buried under system executables. We'll need installers and modifications of core system files now.
The reason for this is because Apple changed the system of the boot process. When you see your Boot Panel, it's fake. It's just there so you don't get bored while the login window starts. The progress bar is based on a percentage, the first time you boot, it writes the time it took for the login window to start in /var/db/loginwindow.boottime. It uses that to determine how slow the progress bar should go next time. This is why the progress bar seems so smooth and nice. You can even run the process /usr/libexec/WaitingForLoginWindow from the terminal, but it will not write the time it takes unless you use sudo. There is no harm in running this.
See here

Since it is now in hex, to replace it we must take the code from the pdf or image file and replace it with the right section in the executable. We must not make any offset, so the code must be exactly 18432 bytes long. This is very complicated and risky, I will not be doing it...
See here

Hope I didn't explain this too badly...

llama

 

[rrijkers]

Hi Flying Llama,

thats as far as I fond things too, it is a pitty that it is not decently posible anymore in Tiger Hopefully Leopard will let us do this again?

ps. Sorry for digging up an o-o-old post