Grub Splash outdated

DasFox · Post by **DasFox** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:33 pm

I just took one of the Zen wallpapers and changed it so that grub can load it now as a splash screen.

If someone can give me a link to upload it I'll put it online.

The image isn't two tone like it shows in this screenshot, my camera is a bit cheap, and the image looks better more like the original.

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:55 pm

Nice work fox! Just create an account and share at http://box.net/.

Post by **clem** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:18 pm

Very nice !

DasFox · Post by **DasFox** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:14 pm

carlos wrote:Nice work fox! Just create an account and share at http://box.net/.

Oh I had a Box account already, DUH...

Ok a blog for us PC Geeks! WoOt

Splash image is here:

http://realpcgeeks.blogspot.com/

P.S. The splash is 640x480, my understanding is that's the size you make them, like one size fits all. Let me know how it works for you on different size resolutions.

Post by **clem** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:38 pm

DasFox, don't forget to tell people how to change their grub config for this.

Clem

DasFox · Post by **DasFox** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:32 pm

clem wrote:DasFox, don't forget to tell people how to change their grub config for this.

Clem

Go to the blog and look what it shows you.

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:21 am

I downloaded and read the grub_splash_howto
Shouldn't the image be extracted from the gz before use?
It's always like "mint-splash.xpm.gz" the .gz still there.... unextracted?

DasFox · Post by **DasFox** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:27 pm

Husse wrote:I downloaded and read the grub_splash_howto
Shouldn't the image be extracted from the gz before use?
It's always like "mint-splash.xpm.gz" the .gz still there.... unextracted?

Just follow the HowTo my man.

Does it say anything about that in the HowTo? ---> No

That means you don't.

ALOHA

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 9:57 am

Looks great....
Who unpacks the image?
The grub slaves?

DasFox · Post by **DasFox** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:41 pm

Husse wrote:Looks great....
Who unpacks the image?
The grub slaves?

What's wrong man you still don't understand?

You asked before, and I said you don't extract the image.

LEAVE IT GUNZIPPED !

The HOWTO explained everything you needed to do, all you needed to do was read it, and follow it.

Now what's so complicated about that?

DasFox · Post by **DasFox** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:42 pm

Here's the HOWTO:

Follow these steps below:
-------------------------
First we'll make the directory for your splash images
sudo mkdir /boot/grub/images

Next copy the image to the directory you just made.

sudo cp mint-splash.xpm.gz /boot/grub/images

Next change to the boot/grub directory
cd /boot/grub

We're going to make a symlink.
*** (Note)****
Make a link like this each time you want to change the splash images,which is easier then editing the grub/menu.lst each time.

ln -s /boot/grub/images/mint-splash.xpm.gz splash.xpm.gz

Edit the grub/menu.lst
sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

Add these two lines to menu.lst
## Splash image
splashimage (hdX,X)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

Change X X in (hdX,X) to reflect your /root path
If you're not sure, then scroll down in the menu.lst, and look for the line below, and use the information found in "root".

In this example you'd use (hd0,3)
title Linux Mint, kernel 2.6.17-11-generic
root (hd0,3)

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:14 am

Sorry man
It was installed on the 13th

It's just that with my Windows background I find it hard to believe that something could be unpacked at that early stage (grub)

So my "dual boot changer" loooks really nice

Gorai · Post by **Gorai** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 2:59 am

Dead link above

There is no realpcgeeks.blogspot.com page not found.

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:02 am

Yepp - dead link. This was a while ago and I don't think I've seen any posts from DasFox after this...
PS At that time I was really new to Linux (and I still am - but have learned a heck of a lot since then

) so I did not understand how powerful Grub is - it's almost a mini operating system of its own

Geir Ergoy · Post by **Geir Ergoy** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:13 pm

Hello!
followed the guide, but the splash remains the same as came with Mint.
I've also tried a guide from ubuntuforums.
Why does it not change?

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:38 pm

Outdated
Mint now uses gfxgrub by default
And since my first post in this topic I've learned that grub is really powerful

Sadly dasFox did not have humor it seems and the link to the blog is dead

DasFox · Post by **DasFox** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 6:29 pm

Husse wrote:Outdated
Mint now uses gfxgrub by default
And since my first post in this topic I've learned that grub is really powerful
Sadly dasFox did not have humor it seems and the link to the blog is dead

Hey I've got HUMOR and I'm back!

SORRY for all those in the past that had problems!

Actually humor wasn't the problem, I just stopped using Linux because it didn't have the tools I needed, but I'm back on the forums for now and using Helena and loving it!

Maybe now I'll make some more Grub screens!

PEACE

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 7:23 am

Oh - this is a really old topic, brings up some posts from when I knew less than now
And now we have grub2 - a mystery in it's own
Welcome back DasFox

DasFox · Post by **DasFox** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:22 pm

Husse wrote:Oh - this is a really old topic, brings up some posts from when I knew less than now
And now we have grub2 - a mystery in it's own
Welcome back DasFox

Thanks Husse, well if Mint wants to follow Ubuntu somewhat they use the .tga format for the grub splash images.

I'll make up a few and explain how, it's not difficult...

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