GRUB Splash screen not showing

**nathanrt** · 01-24-2008

currently have Grub 0.97 installed to duo-boot XP and Masterkey linux.

Am trying to apply a splash screen background to the grub menu, but despite numerous "how to" guides and step by steps, it won't show a background. The grub menu stays in the plain old B&W text format

Here's how the menu.lst file currently looks:

Code:

 

# GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'.
# generated by 'grubconfig'.  Thu Jan 24 10:54:00 2008
#
# The backup copy of the MBR for drive '/dev/hda' is
# here '/boot/grub/mbr.hda.3355'.  You can restore it like this.
# dd if=mbr.hda.3355 of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
#
# Start GRUB global section
#timeout 30
Splashimage=(hd0,1)/root/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#color light-gray/blue black/light-gray
# End GRUB global section
# Other bootable partition config begins

  title Windows XP
  rootnoverify (hd0,0)
  makeactive
  chainloader +1
# Other bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
  title Masterkey Linux
  root (hd0,1)

  kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends

regarding the

Code:

Splashimage=(hd0,1)/root/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

line, I have tried it zipped and unzipped, but to no avail.
I've also tried this line at the top of the file, again, no use!

Linux (and the background image) is stored on hda2 (XP is hda1)

Can anyone see/suggest anything i'm doing wrong??
Any ideas or thoughts would be a help!!!

Thanks
Ned

**devils casper** · 01-24-2008

Hi and Welcome !

Did you create splash image yourself?
Let say, Image name is Picture.jpg. Convert it using convert command.
Execute this

Code:

convert Picture.jpg -resize 640x480 -colors 14 splash2.xpm
gzip splash2.xpm
mv splash2.xpm.gz /boot/grub/

Add this code in grub.conf file.

Code:

splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

**nathanrt** · 01-24-2008

Been through that step many a time (sorry, been trying so many different ways was difficult to get it all in my first post) but thanks for such a quick response!!

Have however found out that slackware grub might not support splashimage, so am going to look into this !!!

oz · 01-24-2008

You might want to take a look at the Splashy Project. I know that it has official support for Slackware.

**darkrose0510** · 01-28-2008

I've had a grub splashimage on Slackware 12, so it does support it. The only problematic thing I can see is in the path to the splash image in your menu.lst.

Code:

splashimage=(hd0,1)/root/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

Try getting rid of the /root so it looks like this:

Code:

splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

and see how it goes.

**nathanrt** · 01-28-2008

Ok, have tried that but to no avail.

HOWEVER....

I now have no GRUB screen, just a small flashing cursor (I can still pick an OS by using the up and down cursors)

I've now tried a different image, and, annoyingly, that works!!

So all i can think is that somewhere along the line i've not made the picture to the full requirements of GRUB, so will have a double check of that and see where it leads!
Thanks for the help so far guys!

**devils casper** · 01-28-2008

You have to convert picture in a GRUB supported format only. Check post #2.

**nathanrt** · 01-28-2008

Originally Posted by devils_casper

You have to convert picture in a GRUB supported format only. Check post #2.

Yeah am aware of that, think it's a case of checking things like max no. of colours, layer depth etc.

Pretty sure it was all ok, but the fact that no end of other pictures i try work and my one doesnt, it's a bit of a headache!

**incognito247** · 10-08-2008

Originally Posted by nathanrt

currently have Grub 0.97 installed to duo-boot XP and Masterkey linux.

Am trying to apply a splash screen background to the grub menu, but despite numerous "how to" guides and step by steps, it won't show a background. The grub menu stays in the plain old B&W text format

Here's how the menu.lst file currently looks:

Code:

 

# GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'.
# generated by 'grubconfig'.  Thu Jan 24 10:54:00 2008
#
# The backup copy of the MBR for drive '/dev/hda' is
# here '/boot/grub/mbr.hda.3355'.  You can restore it like this.
# dd if=mbr.hda.3355 of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
#
# Start GRUB global section
#timeout 30
Splashimage=(hd0,1)/root/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#color light-gray/blue black/light-gray
# End GRUB global section
# Other bootable partition config begins

  title Windows XP
  rootnoverify (hd0,0)
  makeactive
  chainloader +1
# Other bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
  title Masterkey Linux
  root (hd0,1)

  kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends

regarding the

Code:

Splashimage=(hd0,1)/root/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

line, I have tried it zipped and unzipped, but to no avail.
I've also tried this line at the top of the file, again, no use!

Linux (and the background image) is stored on hda2 (XP is hda1)

Can anyone see/suggest anything i'm doing wrong??
Any ideas or thoughts would be a help!!!

Thanks
Ned

change Splashimage=(hd0,1)/root/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
to
#Splashimage=(hd0,1)/root/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

**nathanrt** · 10-08-2008

whoops, sorry folks! forgot i had posted here!!!

Solved the problem in the end (in 9 months, you'd hope i would!!)

Turns out the problem was with my image itself and the program we had used to make it.... was saving some additional information to it that GRUB didnt like!

Thanks for everyone's help though

**PROBLEM SOLVED**

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