March 2005
Beginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
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Chapter 1, Booting Linux
#7 Create a GRUB Boot Splash Background
HACK
Now use your favorite editor to add or change the following line in your /boot/
grub/grub.conf file:
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/frag.xpm.gz
The preceding line assumes that your /boot directory is located on the first
partition on the first disk on your system. Change
(hd0,0) to point to the
disk and partition where your /boot directory resides, if it is different from
the example.
Reboot and voilà: you now have a new background splash screen for GRUB.
“Create a GRUB Boot Splash Background”
[Hack #7] provides full details on
how to make your own personal backgrounds.
HACK
#7
Create a GRUB Boot Splash Background Hack #7
Create your own personalized boot splash backgrounds for GRUB.
The default GRUB bootloader screen is rather bland, but you can spice it up
a little by creating your own custom graphical background screen for the
bootloader. GRUB imposes a number of limitations on the image size and
number of colors. It also doesn’t let you move the menu. The menu appears
in a rectangle near the top of the screen, with some text instructions below
the menu. This makes it relatively easy to create a graphical background
screen for the GRUB bootloader, because you can focus primarily on mak-
ing the bottom one-third of the screen interesting. That is not to say you
cannot use other areas of the screen, but you should be careful. For
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