grub menu image

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 03:08:04PM +0200, Erik Grinaker wrote:

> I installed Ubuntu on my laptop yesterday, and I think it has great
> potential. However, there seems to be a few rough edges, and so I
> thought I might lend a hand wherever there is need.
> 
> The first thing that got me was the lack of a grub menu image. Ubuntu
> has some really nice graphics, and I think the user should be greeted
> with something a bit more exciting than a black/gray 1980-style menu.
> 
> There is a nice grub logo available in the wiki:
> 
> http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/UbuntuArtwork
> 
> It shouldn't be much work adding this to the grub package (or optionally
> the ubuntu-artwork package), so if this is something we'd want I'd be
> happy to provide an updated package.

Early development versions had a graphical grub splash screen, and it caused
serious video corruption problems for some machines, so it was dropped until
those issues can be resolved.  It is more important to be able to read the
screen than for it to look pretty.  :-)

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 - mdz