Grub splash image

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:12:50PM +0200, Manu Cornet wrote:
> I just stumbled upon this :
> 
> 	http://sleepybuddha.sl.funpic.de/ubuntu/
> 
> and thought it might be able to make Ubuntu look even better during the 
> boot process.
> 
> I'm saying this "just in case", as I am absolutely not aware of the 
> technical problems it could involve (maybe it has already been 
> discussed, and given up because it wouldn't work for everybody ?).

Indeed; we tried using a grub splash image back before Ubuntu 4.10, and
reverted it because it made the boot process ugly in quiet mode.

  https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=994
  http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/sounder/2004-September/000387.html

It also seemed to cause problems on some machines:

  http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/sounder/2004-August/000183.html

More recently, we decided that usplash is sufficient for most purposes:

  https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13292

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]