Grub background

HammeR · n00b Joined: 09 Jun 2002 Posts: 17

I have searched like crazy for information on how to change the background of grub.
How can i change the background of grub and what type of images does it suport?
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Have you looked at the Grub Manual?
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HammeR · n00b Joined: 09 Jun 2002 Posts: 17

Well, I had truble finding it.
Thnx man

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Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

Obviously, 'man grub' or 'info grub' (esp. latter) will provide more information.

Russki · Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2002 7:57 pm Post subject:

Hi,
It's actually very simple.
Download Gimp plugin=> http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=1883
Copy it to somewere in .gimp/scripts/ dir. Start Gimp,
open an image that you want to use as GRUB background, and save it
using gimp grub-plugin. DONE! It will be saved as grub start image.
Mount /boot, and copy your new image to /boot/grub/
(You might want to make a backup of your old one)
Goodluck!

Note: you can use any type of image that gimp can open!
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HammeR · n00b Joined: 09 Jun 2002 Posts: 17

Oh, thanx Russki!
One more question; how do I know if Gimp found the plugin?
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Russki · Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2002 9:55 pm Post subject:

If you've done it correctly, you will see somewere under "save as" a new
entry. It looks like "export as grub image" or "save as grub image".
Sorry, I can't remember exactly how it looks there, not at my Gentoo box at the moment. Try it, and you'll find it.
Oh, .gimp dir has two folders: scripts and plugins. Try to copy it to plugins folder to be sure. One of them should do it.

Greetings
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HammeR · n00b Joined: 09 Jun 2002 Posts: 17

Sweeet

Got a nice grubimage now

Here is it if you want to take a look: http://bestyrd.mine.nu/upload/files/1splash.xpm.gz
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