grub splashscreen

[jan1024188]

ok i have grub image ,nice blue color and fedora title.But i dont want it anymore.I want to change my grub look.

so i wnat to know where is grub image,where can i download new one and howto change it!!!

[eraker]

You can read a good description of grub in the gentoo handbook:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...part=1&chap=10

I don't know where to download a new one, but I do know that you can change your splash image in grub.conf (which is probably either at /boot/grub/grub.conf or /etc/grub.conf).

There's a line that looks like this:

splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

in grub.conf that tells it where to look for a splash image. It gives it the partition it's on (the first hard-drive, first boot partition in my case, and the absolute path).

Hope that helps.

[jan1024188]

ok i ve found it.....can i re-edit that image with gimp....will grub give me any err message if i do that?

[devils casper]

.will grub give me any err message if i do that?

ohhh ! i tried to change splash image and it didn't work. its been a long time. may be i did something wrong. i will try again.

dont worry ! edit splash image. backup original file first. in case GRUB couldn't configure new splash image, it will use black background and white text. GRUB works perfectly without/'with incorrect' splash image.




casper

[eraker]

Check this out:
"1.0 Requirements for GRUB splashimages:
1. xpm.gz file type
2. 640x480
3. 14 colors only"

I just found this very detailed site that describes how to do this:
http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grub-images/

[jan1024188]

ok ...worked fine

[devils casper]

1. xpm.gz file type
2. 640x480
3. 14 colors only"

ahaa ! thanx eraker ! i will try this.........




casper

[devils casper]

ok ...worked fine

you are too fast.... did you really created new image having size 640x480 and colors 14 in just 5 minutes? hmmmm.........





casper

[jan1024188]

yes i used gimp.....i added jan1024188 to splash screen and i also changed color to pale blue....heh

now i downloaded some splash screens from here
http://www.gnome-look.org/index.php?...de=high&page=0

ill try them out right now.....

[jan1024188]

ok now i copied fc6 spash screen to /boot/grub dir of fc4 so now i have fc6 splash screen(in less than 5 min)