Changing background of the Grub

[Naveen Kumar D]

Hai,
Is it possible 2 place a background picture in the Grub?

[sdousley]

this is possible. There are however constraints on the file size/type that have to be used.

Firstly the file needs to be of size 640x480.
The file also needs to be indexed to 14 colours.
The file needs to be saved as an "xpm" file. Something like the Gimp can do this.
Finally you will need to gzip the xpm file.

An example of how to do this in command line from a standard jpg file (lets say it's called splash2.jpg):

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

Finally, you need to tell grub to use this splash image. Open the grub config file (usually either /boot/grub/menu.lst or /etc/grub.conf)

Look for the part that says:

# Splash Image
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

Note: (hd0,0) may be different on your system, also note that if you dont have a seperate /boot partition, you will need the /boot infront of the /grub.

Edit the line to point to the new splash file.

# Splash Image
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash2.xpm.gz

Reboot, and you should see your nice new splash image.

[Naveen Kumar D]

Thanks I will try.

[Naveen Kumar D]

Hey dude thanks its working.

[sdousley]

Glad you had more luck with it than i did!! I must of been doing something wrong somewhere! I'll have another bash at it some time!

[HussamUX]

i cannot issue the "convert" command..
is there any specific rpm needed?

i am using red hat enterprise

[sdousley]

convert should be in the imagemagick aplication which should be installable through yum on redhat...

yum install imagemagick