grub: splash screen resolution

[Kam Leo]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kam Leo<kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Frank Cox<theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:03:09 -0700
>> Kam Leo wrote:
>>
>>
>>> GRUB has no splash screen.
>>
>> Grub has a splash screen.
>>
>> See the the splashimage directive in grub.conf.
>
> I stand corrected. It is the background image for the grub menu. It is
> 640x480 pixels.
>

More information regarding GRUB splash screen image characteristics:
Maximum size is 640x480 pixels. Maximum number of colors is 14.

That makes sense since the lowest common denominator (mode) for video
adapters is VGA.