Boot Splash Howto anyone ?

[Daniel Robitaille]

> So, in the meantime, what about writing a nice HowTo on the site, to
> explain how to:

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/UbuntuArtwork  is a good start.


>  1) switch GRUB to graphical mode and display a background image (can GRUB
> be graphical, or is it just LILO ? If so, how to switch to lilo ?)

Ubuntu's grub can have a graphical image.  You just need to add a
splashimage option in your menu.lst file.  Something like:

splashimage=(hd0,2) /boot/grub/image.xpm.gz

But the graphic has to have a specific size/format.  It seems the
commands to create one go like this (but I never tried it personally):
convert -resize 640x480 -colors 14 image.png image.xpm && gzip image.xpm 

(http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grub-images/)

With that said, on some displays (including mine!) the resulted grub
background will be distorted at boot time.