Comments on: Grub 2: Add splash image to beautify grub 2

By: CB

CB — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:31:44 +0000

Like yours much better. The rest are so MILITARISTIC. Say, can't a PNG file also be used?

By: Reeshar

Reeshar — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:33:56 +0000

Actually you should have left bg=false. It’s set to true a bit later in the code if it finds the background. So the problem was the wrong location not a wrong code statement.

By: Reeshar

Reeshar — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:30:07 +0000

As an addendum, if you download vesainfo.exe from:

ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/Oberon/ETHOberon/Contrib/Native/

and run it from a DOS bootup CD (eg, FreeDOS) or USB memory stick (as I did) you can get a listing of the resolutions available in your BIOS. For my Samsung NC10 I get 640×480x8, x16 and x32, and also 800×600x8, x16 and x32.

Hence you can use an 800×600 splash screen and, in my case, if you compress it horizontally from 1024 to 800 it looks correct when it’s expanded to the full screen width by the VESA screen driver.

By: Reeshar

Reeshar — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:11:14 +0000

Hi Vivek

Good article but it’s incorrect to say that Grub2 only supports 640×480 images. Grub only supports standard VBE resolutions as described in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions and therefore graphic images of the same resolution. The resolution you choose, of course, must be supported by your display.

So, for example, I have a Samsung NC10 netbook on which I have just installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10. The native display resolution is 1024×600 – not a VBE standard resolution. To deal with this I did the following:

1. Set the Grub display resolution to 800×600x32

2. Created anamorphic 800×600 images which when stretched on the display (as they are by the display driver) will appear correctly as 1024×600 images.

3. Regenerated the menu.cfg file.

This works perfectly!

Richard

By: Echo Six

Echo Six — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:46:25 +0000

You are not restricted to 640×480 for grub2, the restriction is on what your graphics card will support.
You can determine the screen sizes that are available for your video card from the grub terminal using vbeinfo

Search for the line GRUB_GFXMODE= in /etc/default/grub and add a suitable screen size, e.g. I have 1280×1024

I found that to retain this screen size for the framebuffer, add an entry in /etc/grub.d/10_linux under menuentry “$1″ {, I added mine after set gfxpayload=keep

AND there is a lot more you can do besides change the background splash image!

http://grub.enbug.org/ThemeFormat#colors

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:03:06 +0000

Any REAL LINUX GEEK would know how to make a .tga!

By: SAR

SAR — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:48:25 +0000

These Grub2 splash screens are stupid, what is this Windows we’re running?

What REAL LINUX GEEK would want to use these junk images?

These images remind me of all the typical wallpaper websites out there with all their crap wallpaper images too!

Any REAL decent Linux images out there or a TUT so we can make our own .tga?

THANKS

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By: Richard Jones

Richard Jones — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:59:03 +0000

Re last post: I’ve solved it myself, I’m now a linux genius! In the 05_Debian_Theme config file I noticed that use bg=FALSE so I changed it to TRUE. Also, I didn’t put the right location down correctly so that is all now fixed.