Themeing GRUB (was Re: Any theme planned for FC 6)

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi Andy,

Andy Shellam wrote:
> I'd tried that - I'd found the same tutorial in various different 
> versions across the Net.
> It might help to know that the image I created was in GIMP 2.2.11, 
> developed on both an FC5 and Windows XP system under GIMP (I believe the 
> tutorial was on GIMP 1.x so I'm not sure if file formats have changed or 
> anything silly like that.)
> I'd edited the original splash.xpm.gz image from Fedora, indexed it to 
> 14 colours, and saved back to a splash.xpm.gz image in the original 
> location (/boot/grub I believe.)

Did you gunzip the splash.xpm.gz file, edit in the gimp, save as xpm, 
and then gzip the xpm?

> All I could get Grub to do was display a black screen with white text 
> (even restoring the original image didn't make any difference.)  I'd 
> tried editing the menu.lst file to point to a different image - no joy.
> 
> I'd also tried creating a new image, 640x480, filling it in solid red, 
> indexing to 14 colours - but even that didn't show.
> 
> If need be I could send the image for someone to take a look at?

Please - feel free to send it via email attachment to the list or upload 
it somewhere and post the link.

> P.S. to Diana: I hadn't said you were unwilling to discuss, I was just 
> commenting that no-one had replied - in fact, before Leon's post, 
> there's been no messages from anyone about anything on here :P lol.

? This mailing list has been around for a few months and there's been 
more discussion than that.

~m