More on GRUB Image

Steve Barnhart stb52988 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 2 17:33:34 UTC 2006


So there haven't really been any modifications to GRUB to allow
higher-resolution backgrounds? Are their any future alternatives?

On 9/2/06, Jiri Jakub Masek <jjmasek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, thanks, I tried to do a GRUB background image as I wrote before,  I'm
> satisfied  with it installed on my computer,  but it's  only quick work to
> test it. It looks like a possible way to design it.
>
> I posted it to my website  http://juiceoff.8m.com to give you chance to test
> it too.
>
> JJM
>
> 2006/9/2, John Baer <baerjj at gmail.com >:
> > Jiri,
> >
> > All of the comments on the GRUB image quality are correct and every
> > distro is challenged by this. If you wanted to see how things would look
> > without the GRUB image, edit your menu.lst file and comment the splash
> > image line.
> >
> > Mini HowTo:
> >
> > >>>
> >
> > su <return>
> > gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst <return>
> >
> > change "splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz"
> > to     "## splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz"
> >
> > <save>, reboot
> >
> > >>>
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 10:49 -0400,
> fedora-art-list-request at redhat.com
> > wrote:
> > > Hi people, this is what I want to be discussed (and may be that it
> > > isn't
> > > important):
> > >
> > > The first what I see when I start my computer is GRUB screen. It looks
> > > choppy and the reason isn't artistic but the image which size is
> > > 640x480pix
> > > resized to my monitor current resolution (1280x1024pix). I don't
> > > understand
> > > all the settings of Fedora Linux, so, I don't know if it could be set.
> > > I
> > > think that more and more people are only users like me now.
> > >
> > > So, I'm going to ask: is possibly to change the starting process to
> > > put
> > > noresized image in right bottom segment of screen as is? O.K., it'll
> > > be
> > > needed to change the specifications too, the background colors of
> > > screen and
> > > image to set to be the same.
> > >
> > > JJM
> >
> >
> >
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