After heaps of trial and error, I managed to get the Linux Penguins to appear on boot (and even after logon) on Gentoo Linux. These penguins appear through a frame buffer (in this case VesaFB) and there is a penguin for each logical processor on the machine.
How I did it:
Pass the following kernel arguments:
nomodeset (This disables KMS aka Kernel mode setting)
(All the other arguments shown in the video do nothing apparently lol)
Make sure you boot as BIOS, I don’t think they work with UEFI.
Recompile Linux with the following options:
“Standard 224-color Linux logo” This can be found in Device Drivers, Graphics support, Bootup Logo.
“Framebuffer Console Deferred Takeover” DISABLED, this can be found in Device Drivers, Graphics Support, Console display driver support, Framebuffer Console support.
“VESA VGA graphics support” This can be found in Device Drivers, Graphics support, Frame buffer devices, Support for frame buffer devices.
Please note that with this configuration, it will not be possible to start an X server, so this setup would only be useful for headless systems. Enjoy your penguins.
Music Used:
The song in the video is Hendersin – Kids
YouTube:
SoundCloud:
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