[ale] Grub Boot Menu Splash Image in Ubuntu 10.04 Question

[Jim Kinney]

There's also a limit to the number of colors that can be used. Any 12 or 16
with defined color palate index at 0=black, 15=white (or vice-versa?).

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 13:07 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 12:38 -0400, wolf at wolfhalton.info wrote:
> > > I notice that my grub boot menu splash screen is a picture of the
> > > debian logo.  Is there a place to go to customize this graphic?
> > There
> > > is nothing wrong with it.  I just want to be able to know how to
> > > change it.
> >
> > Check /etc/default/grub -- look for the "GRUB_BACKGROUND" line.
>
> Oh, and another thing, you'll need to make sure that there is an
> "insmod" line for the type of image format that is being used.  If the
> image that you want to use is the same type as the existing one, all
> should be fine.
>
> After you update /etc/default/grub, don't forget to run the command to
> update GRUB's static configuration file:
>
>  $ sudo update-grub
>
> So that the changes will take effect.
>
> Note that you should update /etc/default/grub, and
> not /boot/grub/grub.cfg directly, because every time a new kernel update
> is pulled, APT will automatically run the update-grub command, which
> means that if you make any changes in /boot/grub/grub.cfg, they will be
> lost at the next kernel upgrade.
>
> As an example, let's say that GRUB is setup for a 640x480 graphics mode
> (e.g., "GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480" in /etc/default/grub), and you want to use
> a PNG graphic located in /boot/splash.png.  At the end
> of /etc/grub/default, you'll add the following lines (or if these lines
> exist you'll modify them as needed for what you want):
>
>  GRUB_BACKGROUND="/boot/splash.png"
>  GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="png"
>
> GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES is a space delimited variable, so if you want to
> load multiple modules that are not loaded in the standard configuration,
> you'll put them listed one by one, for example:
>
>  GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="png mdraid lvm"
>
> I don't have a complete list of what's loaded in the stock Ubuntu
> configuration at the moment, so some of those may never be necessary.
> At least in my case, I needed to create the variable with the png module
> so that I could use a PNG boot splash.
>
>        --- Mike
>
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