I have been playing around with customizing the centos to create a spin for my workplace. I am using centos 6.6 minimal, and trying to change the centos name to some random string. I have been able to change the name in the grub using grub.conf, but the name while the system is booting, I am not able to find a reference to that. Can somebody help me with that ?
Attached screenshot.
Anyhelp with what to search for or some blogs and direct answers would help :-)
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Ramaseshan S ramaseshan@fractalio.com wrote:
I have been playing around with customizing the centos to create a spin for my workplace. I am using centos 6.6 minimal, and trying to change the centos name to some random string. I have been able to change the name in the grub using grub.conf, but the name while the system is booting, I am not able to find a reference to that. Can somebody help me with that ?
This can be found via a search engine. http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/centos-hostname-change
Attached screenshot.
Anyhelp with what to search for or some blogs and direct answers would help :-)
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On Mon, November 2, 2015 11:43 am, Mike - st257 wrote:
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Ramaseshan S ramaseshan@fractalio.com wrote:
I have been playing around with customizing the centos to create a spin for my workplace. I am using centos 6.6 minimal, and trying to change the centos name to some random string. I have been able to change the name in the grub using grub.conf, but the name while the system is booting, I am not able to find a reference to that. Can somebody help me with that ?
This can be found via a search engine. http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/centos-hostname-change
This way one changes hostname reported by
hostname
command (which usually though not necessarily is what the machine is registered on network with). My impression was the OP (original poster) wishes the system claim to be different from (CentOS) as he makes hist own tweaked distribution disk (or whatever the reason is). This last (CentOS, RedHat Enterprise, Debian,...) appears in many places, GRUB configuration file, splash screen image to name some.
Valeri
Attached screenshot.
Anyhelp with what to search for or some blogs and direct answers would help :-)
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On 11/02/2015 06:57 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Mon, November 2, 2015 11:43 am, Mike - st257 wrote:
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Ramaseshan S ramaseshan@fractalio.com wrote:
I have been playing around with customizing the centos to create a spin for my workplace. I am using centos 6.6 minimal, and trying to change the centos name to some random string. I have been able to change the name in the grub using grub.conf, but the name while the system is booting, I am not able to find a reference to that. Can somebody help me with that ?
This can be found via a search engine. http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/centos-hostname-change
This way one changes hostname reported by
hostname
command (which usually though not necessarily is what the machine is registered on network with). My impression was the OP (original poster) wishes the system claim to be different from (CentOS) as he makes hist own tweaked distribution disk (or whatever the reason is). This last (CentOS, RedHat Enterprise, Debian,...) appears in many places, GRUB configuration file, splash screen image to name some.
This may be a good starting point: https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.6#head-aa7c0c92192cb800...
On 11/03/2015 02:57 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Mon, November 2, 2015 11:43 am, Mike - st257 wrote:
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Ramaseshan S ramaseshan@fractalio.com wrote:
I have been playing around with customizing the centos to create a spin for my workplace. I am using centos 6.6 minimal, and trying to change the centos name to some random string. I have been able to change the name in the grub using grub.conf, but the name while the system is booting, I am not able to find a reference to that. Can somebody help me with that ?
This can be found via a search engine. http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/centos-hostname-change
This way one changes hostname reported by
hostname
Actually, now you should use:
hostnamectl set-hostname fqdn
command (which usually though not necessarily is what the machine is registered on network with). My impression was the OP (original poster) wishes the system claim to be different from (CentOS) as he makes hist own tweaked distribution disk (or whatever the reason is). This last (CentOS, RedHat Enterprise, Debian,...) appears in many places, GRUB configuration file, splash screen image to name some.
Valeri
Attached screenshot.
Anyhelp with what to search for or some blogs and direct answers would help :-)
-- Cheers -- S.Ramaseshan Engineer fractalio.com
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I am kinda getting a tweaked distrubution with CentOS, So this is kinda rebranding. I am not trying to change the hostname, trying to change the System OS name in the on boot screen.
I have changed the grub configuration file and it reflects in the Boot OS selection screen, login screen. But only in the on boot screen does it not reflect. My search led me to something called plymouth, and the text (tri colour) theme is loaded. Trying to still meddle with it. But with no luck.
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 6:01 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
On 11/03/2015 02:57 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Mon, November 2, 2015 11:43 am, Mike - st257 wrote:
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Ramaseshan S ramaseshan@fractalio.com wrote:
I have been playing around with customizing the centos to create a spin
for my workplace. I am using centos 6.6 minimal, and trying to change the centos name to some random string. I have been able to change the name in the grub using grub.conf, but the name while the system is booting, I am not able to find a reference to that. Can somebody help me with that ?
This can be found via a search engine.
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/centos-hostname-change
This way one changes hostname reported by
hostname
Actually, now you should use:
hostnamectl set-hostname fqdn
command (which usually though not necessarily is what the machine is registered on network with). My impression was the OP (original poster) wishes the system claim to be different from (CentOS) as he makes hist own tweaked distribution disk (or whatever the reason is). This last (CentOS, RedHat Enterprise, Debian,...) appears in many places, GRUB configuration file, splash screen image to name some.
Valeri
Attached screenshot.
Anyhelp with what to search for or some blogs and direct answers would help :-)
-- Cheers -- S.Ramaseshan Engineer fractalio.com
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On 11/2/2015 8:35 PM, Ramaseshan S wrote:
I am kinda getting a tweaked distrubution with CentOS, So this is kinda rebranding. I am not trying to change the hostname, trying to change the System OS name in the on boot screen.
I have changed the grub configuration file and it reflects in the Boot OS selection screen, login screen. But only in the on boot screen does it not reflect. My search led me to something called plymouth, and the text (tri colour) theme is loaded. Trying to still meddle with it. But with no luck.
there are various bitmap image files used for the boot screen, the gnome login screen, and so forth. to change the branding, you'd need to recreate all these.
I have changed most of the things, the grub, issues. Since I run a minimal, I dont really have a gnome login screen, all text based (no GUI). The only place I am not able to trace is the booting time screen. Please do see an attached screenshot in this mail
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:17 AM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 11/2/2015 8:35 PM, Ramaseshan S wrote:
I am kinda getting a tweaked distrubution with CentOS, So this is kinda rebranding. I am not trying to change the hostname, trying to change the System OS name in the on boot screen.
I have changed the grub configuration file and it reflects in the Boot OS selection screen, login screen. But only in the on boot screen does it not reflect. My search led me to something called plymouth, and the text (tri colour) theme is loaded. Trying to still meddle with it. But with no luck.
there are various bitmap image files used for the boot screen, the gnome login screen, and so forth. to change the branding, you'd need to recreate all these.
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On 11/03/2015 01:52 PM, Ramaseshan S wrote:
I have changed most of the things, the grub, issues. Since I run a minimal, I dont really have a gnome login screen, all text based (no GUI). The only place I am not able to trace is the booting time screen. Please do see an attached screenshot in this mail
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:17 AM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 11/2/2015 8:35 PM, Ramaseshan S wrote:
I am kinda getting a tweaked distrubution with CentOS, So this is kinda rebranding. I am not trying to change the hostname, trying to change the System OS name in the on boot screen.
I have changed the grub configuration file and it reflects in the Boot OS selection screen, login screen. But only in the on boot screen does it not reflect. My search led me to something called plymouth, and the text (tri colour) theme is loaded. Trying to still meddle with it. But with no luck.
there are various bitmap image files used for the boot screen, the gnome login screen, and so forth. to change the branding, you'd need to recreate all these.
-- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Sorry didnt know that Here is an attached online link.
http://tinypic.com/r/33pdcw6/9
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
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On 11/03/2015 01:52 PM, Ramaseshan S wrote:
I have changed most of the things, the grub, issues. Since I run a minimal, I dont really have a gnome login screen, all text based (no GUI). The only place I am not able to trace is the booting time screen. Please do see an attached screenshot in this mail
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:17 AM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 11/2/2015 8:35 PM, Ramaseshan S wrote:
I am kinda getting a tweaked distrubution with CentOS, So this is kinda
rebranding. I am not trying to change the hostname, trying to change the System OS name in the on boot screen.
I have changed the grub configuration file and it reflects in the Boot OS selection screen, login screen. But only in the on boot screen does it not reflect. My search led me to something called plymouth, and the text (tri colour) theme is loaded. Trying to still meddle with it. But with no luck.
there are various bitmap image files used for the boot screen, the gnome
login screen, and so forth. to change the branding, you'd need to recreate all these.
-- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
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On 03/11/15 05:06, Ramaseshan S wrote:
Sorry didnt know that Here is an attached online link.
just so i understand this - why are you trying to hide the fact that this is CentOS you are running there ?
I am just learning :-) As a part of understanding various components of the boot process. Modifing various components and trying to understand how things work.
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
On 03/11/15 05:06, Ramaseshan S wrote:
Sorry didnt know that Here is an attached online link.
just so i understand this - why are you trying to hide the fact that this is CentOS you are running there ?
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On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 10:36:50AM +0530, Ramaseshan S wrote:
Sorry didnt know that Here is an attached online link.
Thats 'plymouth', specifically the text theme. Looking at the plymouth source, it uses /etc/system-release by default (and it looks for /etc/os-release too, but I think that's not something in CentOS6. /etc/system-release should be a symlink to /etc/centos-release). Assuming you're already updating /etc/system-release to rebrand your spin of CentOS, it should automatically be updated when you rebuild your initrd.
Hey Billings, Thanks for the response. Just a quick question, you are talking about initramfs or initrd ?? My /boot dosent seem to have a initrd.img rather does seem to have a initramfs..
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Jonathan Billings billings@negate.org wrote:
On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 10:36:50AM +0530, Ramaseshan S wrote:
Sorry didnt know that Here is an attached online link.
Thats 'plymouth', specifically the text theme. Looking at the plymouth source, it uses /etc/system-release by default (and it looks for /etc/os-release too, but I think that's not something in CentOS6. /etc/system-release should be a symlink to /etc/centos-release). Assuming you're already updating /etc/system-release to rebrand your spin of CentOS, it should automatically be updated when you rebuild your initrd.
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Hi Billing and others, Thanks to your help, learnt a lot about plymouth and yay, it actually works :-) Thanks to all the help and the fast response :-)
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Ramaseshan S ramaseshan@fractalio.com wrote:
Hey Billings, Thanks for the response. Just a quick question, you are talking about initramfs or initrd ?? My /boot dosent seem to have a initrd.img rather does seem to have a initramfs..
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Jonathan Billings billings@negate.org wrote:
On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 10:36:50AM +0530, Ramaseshan S wrote:
Sorry didnt know that Here is an attached online link.
Thats 'plymouth', specifically the text theme. Looking at the plymouth source, it uses /etc/system-release by default (and it looks for /etc/os-release too, but I think that's not something in CentOS6. /etc/system-release should be a symlink to /etc/centos-release). Assuming you're already updating /etc/system-release to rebrand your spin of CentOS, it should automatically be updated when you rebuild your initrd.
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