Hoary splash and GRUB theme?

Vincenzo Di Massa hawk78_it at yahoo.it
Thu Mar 10 07:53:21 UTC 2005


Hi.
How did you install the bootsplash?
Can you tell me what to put into menu.lst please?

Thank you.
Vincenzo.

Alle 05:51, giovedì 10 marzo 2005, Ken McLennan ha scritto:
> G'day there Gabor,
>
> >Thank you. So it's not a bug it's a feature :)))
>
>     I've currently got Hoary installed in a dual boot selection
> alongside of Win XP (the OS I use at work, so I can bring stuff home &
> work on it in my own time - sigh...).   I have a Grub bootsplash working
> fine, although I had to install it by hand. Just a nice simple graphic
> that someone else made - I have the artistic skills of a bowling ball -
> and that I converted to 15 colours (although I just checked the file &
> it says 16 colours) in 640 x 480 then saved as a gzipped xpm file. It
> needs to have .xpm.gz  for an extension.
>
>     You may already be familiar with all of that. I don't know how
> familiar you are with Grub. I'm not an expert by any means, but I did
> manage to get a splashimage working and it wasn't hard to do. If you're
> not aware of how to set it up, just check 'info grub'. Although you
> could easily know far more than me about it and this extra information
> isn't necessary. In that case, t may be of use to someone else =) .
>
> See ya
> Ken McLennan
> Qld, Australia




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