Grub not displaying splash image

tactless · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 8:24 am Post subject: Grub not displaying splash image

For some reason, grub won't show the splash image. I've done almost exactly what the build.html instructions tell me during installation, and grub works - but as an ugly white-on-black box.

My hard drive is configured like so:

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Odd... the only thing I see is possibly this:

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tactless · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 10:48 am Post subject:

Me neither... added the = sign, still doesn't work. What do I do?
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jay · l33t Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 980

Are you sure that your /boot device is (hd0,0)? Otherwise it looks just correct and I only can recommend to put default 0 into the first row.

What Filesystem do you use for /boot ?
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

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Maybe something went awry in compiling Grub. I'd emerge it again. Maybe that will fix it.
I'd first delete the file in /usr/portage/distfiles to force it to download a new one.
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tactless · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 3:05 pm Post subject:

I'm surprised myself to say it didn't work. I deleted the distfile, mounted /boot, emerged... nothing. Still no splash. I'd switch to lilo, but this is annoying the hell out of me! Any other ideas?
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

This isn't a custom image is it?
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Sesquipedalian · n00b Joined: 22 May 2002 Posts: 62 Location: Loveland, CO

do you have the recursive link to /boot ?

if not, mount /boot, cd to /boot and create it:

kaplan · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 12 Location: Canada

Hi.

I had the same problem. By mistake I put a space between (hd0,0) and /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz. Removing this space solved the problem.

In other words, I had:

FINITE · Guru Joined: 10 May 2002 Posts: 449

Or if it is configured right and the image isn't there you could just make your own splash screen. There is a plugin for gimp to do just that.

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ebichu · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 5:28 pm Post subject:

Are you using the GRUB binary from the stage-whatever tarball or some other GRUB version? The standard GRUB version from GNU does not support splashimage (but I'm not sure how much it would complain if it sees an unsupported command in your menu.lst file).

Curiously, emerge -f grub fetches a version of GRUB that is both older than the one from the stage-whatever tarball and doesn't have the splashimage patch.

A trap I fell into once was to create a custom splashimage file using the Win32 port of The GIMP, but that failed due to the .xpm file (before gzipping) having MS-DOS line endings instead of Unix line-endings.
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tactless · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 5:38 pm Post subject:

GNU GRUB v0.90. I was wondering why there was nothing about splash images in the documentation... If they aren't supported, it strikes me as extremely odd that the default gentoo configuration does specify a splashimage. I don't know, however, which grub was initially installed - I've emerged it again recently, as I've said.
You guys sound like you have splashimages in grub... what grub do you use?[/b]
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tactless · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 5:58 pm Post subject:

That's odd... same version here. And you say splashimages work for you? They're not mentioned in the manpage here...
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

I get the purple background thing. You are using the r7 version?
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jay · l33t Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 980

tactless: Try to recover the grub sources from your installation cd into /usr/portage/distfiles and then recompile GRUB again.
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ebichu · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 6:43 pm Post subject:

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I'm using gentoo in a vmware-env.... so currently I don't get any spalsh-images.... I blame vmware for it, cos FB dosn't work in it.... and I assume FB is needed for the splashimage...

but if vga16 is all that is needed.... I'll give it a shot

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Hrm... I didn't think I had framebuffer support. Anyone know how to check?
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ElCondor · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 6:58 pm Post subject:

framebuffer is not needed. actually it wouldn't help, grub loads before the kernel

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tactless · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 10:18 pm Post subject:

strings /boot/grub/stage2 | grep vga16 returns nothing
How do I merge the patch?
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