How to get a 1024x600 boot screen ?

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    SbM

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    Hi!

    Does anyone know how you can get a 1024x600 boot screen with Mac OS X?

    I don't mean the desktop resolution (already fixed thanks to Paul's .kexts), but the first screen you see when you boot Darwin (the grey one with a dark grey apple in the middle and the spinning thing at the bottom).

    Tried "Graphics Mode"=1024x600x32 at the boot prompt, but it doesn't work and "?video" shows that 1024x600 isn't natively supported.
     
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    I don't think that it's possible. I've tried just about everything on my desktop hackintosh to get a 1440x900 boot screen, but it seems that until the graphics drivers are loaded up it just supports standard VESA resolutions.. 800x600, 1024x768, etc...

    What you *could* do, though, if that stretched-out apple logo really bothers you, is try BootXChanger.. http://namedfork.net/bootxchanger/ .. It allows you to replace the apple logo with anything you'd like. If you take the apple image and make it 78.125% as wide in Photoshop or your favourite image editing program, when it gets displayed on the stretched out boot screen it'll have the proper dimensions.
     
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    Ahhh, check that. BootXChanger didn't seem to work when I tried it just now.. Didn't do anything harmful, but perhaps it only works on genuine Macs.
     
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    OK. Thanks for the reply, anyway. Not very important, I can live with that ;)
     
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