Just a tip for wide ugly boot screen (if you can't get max resolution)

[nyolc8]

Hi! I just want to share with you my "solution" for my boot screen.

 

I think many of us having the bootscreen like this:

with that two bold black area on both side

 

My display native resolution is 1920x1080 but I couldn't get that resolution for boot screen.

So I simply found out what resolution I have by checking it in my monitor/display osd menu while osx was on the boot screen (for me it is: 1600x1200).

When I found out what resolution I have on the boot screen, I did this:

• I went to /Extra/Themes/Default/ folder, and opened the theme.plist file.
  
• Changed boot_height and screen_height to 1200
  
• Changed boot_width and screen_width to 1600
  
• Saved the changes to the theme.plist file.
  
• Then I made an 1600x1200 size image in photoshop (you can use gimp or something else), filled it with black, and put a nice apple logo to the middle, then saved¹ it as boot.png.
  
• Backed up /Extra/Themes/Default/boot.png file.
  
• Replaced /Extra/Themes/Default/boot.png with my 1600x1200 size boot.png file.
  
• Rebooted.
  

(Green is your horizontal, Blue is your vertical resolution on the boot screen.)

¹: Try to make the png as small (filesize) as you can (for better loading speed). I used multiple online png crush/compress tools to achieve this (google for "online png crush" or "online png compress").

 

Now I have a nice iOS-like boot screen:

I'm using this since I'm using a hackintosh (1,5years).

 

Notes:

- make sure you don't have "Legacy Logo=Yes" in boot.plist.

- with the big boot.png, you can't see the spinning wheel (like in iOS)