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Stray Dog Joined: 07 Oct 2001 Posts: 8

i rather have the original boot logo then the atari one

Stray Dog Joined: 18 Oct 2001 Posts: 3

The PSP palette file provided is just a list of 16 RGB values. You can enter them manually into Photoshop's colour table. But because I'm nice, here you go.

http://www.sexintheass.com/filestor/WinXP.act Just load it from the colour table box.

PS. sorry about the domain name. Smile

Stray Dog Joined: 08 Oct 2001 Posts: 6

First, Prophet, stick your troll comments back in your a_ss where they came from, it was an example of how to use the palette correctly to make your own boot image. I am thankful for all of the contributions you have made you grammar lack of a troll.

Secondly, of course you can enter the custom values in photoshop and make a custom palette. I didn't write a paragraph about how photoshop cannot handle this because I figured people would find out themselves before posting misinformation.

Grug, did you actually try saving the image yet in all black palette? I doubt it, because you would then see that Photoshop flakes and compresses the image to either a 1 color palette or to a 16 color greyscale palette. This occurs when you save to bmp after converting the 16 color palette entries to the all black 16 entries, every time. Photoshop is not able to get that perhaps you wanted 16 all black entries and simplifies the image for you. If you have step by step instructions demonstrating my folly, please post them.

Do we need to convert to all black before adding the images to NTOSKRNL? I believe the all black palette was used by MS because the image size is then smaller when added to NTOSKRL.exe. Using Photoshop, I did get my image to work without going through the final step of going back to the all black palette before I added it to NTOSKRNL.exe. However, the image sizes were way off what the originals were and NTOSKRNL became quite a bit bigger. Paintshop pro was able to correctly replace the black palette for near exact image size replacements.

I would like more feedback if anyone has it. I found a german website the other day that used the same paintshop pro method as me, they also stated something about photoshop not working for them but I couldn't understand the babbelfish translation.

Ishmael

Stray Dog Joined: 08 Oct 2001 Posts: 6

PS: Grug, need a good graphic designer for your site? I am available :)

EDIT: Doh, I should have looked at what I was assuming to be a sex site before I posted that. It is not a sex site.

Edited by - Ishmael on 10/19/2001 13:12:46

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2001 2:29 pm Post subject:

Even the old standard VGA palette got me a working image, but just saving and exchanging with this 16 color palette worked fine. Didn't MS just do this black palette thing to confuse Smile

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Stray Dog Joined: 18 Oct 2001 Posts: 3

No I didn't try using the black palette, cause its not necessary to convert it back to black for WinXP to display it.

Stray Dog Joined: 21 Aug 2001 Posts: 10

can we get some posts of the ntoskrnl files for xp? i have not been able to get this to work even using the atari logo pic's. i would love to test out a kernel exe from someone else, i would also love to see some other kernel files with a different color pallete to show people that you are nto limited to the default.

Stray Dog Joined: 23 Oct 2001 Posts: 4

I got the logon screen to work fine... even using Photoshop. Easy as pie, I just wish there was a better way of changing NTOSKRNL.exe, other than safe mode. The whole /kernel = "blah" doesn't work for me. Unsure if I am doing it wrong, but I am fairly certain that it does not work by modifying the boot.ini Hopefully someone will work out a way to do the selecting of logon screens/random logon. Just posting my results!

Stray Dog Joined: 14 Aug 2001 Posts: 42 Location: USA

Saint330, the boot.ini switch does work in XP. That is how I am doing it. I have a nice calvin and Hobbes boot logo displayed that way. You must be doing something wrong. I can select the kernel the same way as windows 2000.

-Apuleus

Stray Dog Joined: 23 Oct 2001 Posts: 4

Hmmmm!!! Because I just tried it again and this is what it looks like:
[boot loader]
timeout = 30
default = multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS ="LWD Win2K Professional" /fastdetect /kernel=NTOSKRNL.exe
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\="LWD Win2K Professional (FailSafe)" /fastdetect
/kernel=ntoschk.exe

And I modified the NTOSCHK.exe correctly. I get the selection screen when I boot up, and I select the NTOSCHK.exe, but it just restarts again.. without getting to the boot screen... any suggestions?

Stray Dog Joined: 23 Oct 2001 Posts: 4

Hmmmm!!! Because I just tried it again and this is what it looks like:
[boot loader]
timeout = 30
default = multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS ="LWD Win2K Professional" /fastdetect /kernel=NTOSKRNL.exe
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\="LWD Win2K Professional (FailSafe)" /fastdetect
/kernel=ntoschk.exe

And I modified the NTOSCHK.exe correctly. I get the selection screen when I boot up, and I select the NTOSCHK.exe, but it just restarts again.. without getting to the boot screen... any suggestions?

Stray Dog Joined: 18 Oct 2001 Posts: 3

I can only tell you what mine says

[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /KERNEL=NTOSGRUG.EXE

Stray Dog Joined: 14 Aug 2001 Posts: 42 Location: USA

Here is mine:

[boot loader]
timeout=2
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect /KERNEL=09.exe
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT\="Windows 2000 Professional (FailSafe)" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /KERNEL=12.exe

The only suggestion I have is try copying the original kernel to your chk kernel and see if it boots. if so then you may have a corrupted kernel. Double check to make sure all of your bitmaps are within the proper range.

-Apuleus

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2001 3:04 pm Post subject:

Has anybody tried using a background color different than black ? I'm asking, because when I do (using this palette), I'm seeing another overlay (or, some other side-effect ?) in the topleft corner (small rectangle).

Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2001 11:41 pm Post subject:

Thanks a lot guys!
Here's the one I made, it's simple but nice.
Feel free to comment.

EDIT: Angelfire may now show the image (grr), so here's the link
http://www.angelfire.com/linux/issalzul_syde/images/
it's pi.gif
look at welcome.jpg for the welcome screen i made

Edited by - Issalzul Syde on 11/01/2001 03:00:32