<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.2.3"> </HEAD> <BODY> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> 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 (<A HREF="http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grub-images/">http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grub-images/</A>) With that said, on some displays (including mine!) the resulted grub background will be distorted at boot time. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Thanks ! I just followed this site's howto, worked first time ! :o) With the Gimp I could easily resize my pics, change to 14 colors, with no-dithering (important it says on the site), then save it as 'xpm'. Then just zip it and that's it, I had my very own pic on GRUB ! Wow... :o) IMHO it really makes the whole thing look so much more 'professional' and polished. Sadly as soon as I hit 'enter', the magic disappears and it's back to the kernel's black background... :o( I really can't wait for Ubuntu to release 'usplash', hopefully it will be available to Warty before Hoary comes out, because I am really so impatient !!!! :-) Vince </BODY> </HTML>