Grub prettiness -- splashimage ??

[William Case]

Hi; 

Not an important question, but grub
splashimagee=(hd1,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz did catch my attention.

Two questions;
1) At boot time a Fedora 8 image quickly (0.5 seconds or less) flashes
on my screen, then does something in a blank screen; then loads the grub
menu.  Can I either remove the quick Fedora 8 flash or extend its life
so it can be read?

2) Just for eye-candy's sake, does anyone know of a better (prettier)
grub menu layout that I might download and replace splash.xpm.gz(??)
with?

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Regards Bill