(Gentoo) Logo for Grub?

ElCondor · Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 3:05 pm Post subject: (Gentoo) Logo for Grub?

Hi!

Has anyone perhaps taken the cow to be displayed at the grub-bootscreen? I tried myself, but I cannot geht the colors correct for the spashimage, it always looses some - and I'd like to let my users know the distribution they are using

If anyone has (or a description for the correct file-format for the Logo) please drop a link in here

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arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

Yeah, please do. I'd love to know, myself.

Jeevz · Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 3:26 pm Post subject:

The image format should be xpm and it needs to be gzipped. As far as I remember it should be 640x480 and 15 colors or less.

ElCondor · Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 3:45 pm Post subject:

The original splash-image is xpm with 16 colors, but the ones I made did not work (yet), I tried several color depths, but none was displayed correctly - I'll give it another try and let you

arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

I've looked at the splash.xpm.gz properties, 16 colors, 640x480 like you said, 72x72dpi resolution... I tried changing another picture to that (pretty much exactly the same, just a different picture) and it just came up all wierd and didn't look anything like it.

The grub info page and the website have nothing on the splashimage command, either.

I'm perplexed, also. Now that I want to do this, it's starting to bug me that I don't know !!!!

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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Is the cow the Gentoo logo? I'd wondered what that was. I only ask since Gentoo is a breed of penguin.
Seems odd to use a cow for a logo with a name that is very different.

Guest · Posted: Sat May 11, 2002 5:57 am Post subject:

what is that silvery pink blob thing suppose to represent anyway....lol

Jeevz · Posted: Sat May 11, 2002 11:57 am Post subject:

ElCondor · Posted: Sat May 11, 2002 4:09 pm Post subject:

well, I didn't mean that the cow is THE gentoo logo, but it's pretty cool there (and sure cooler than the gentoo-"g" - although it looks "icy"

) and not that I know associated with anything else. anyway .. someone already found a way to create a correct splash-image?

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richyp · Posted: Sat May 11, 2002 7:46 pm Post subject:

Hi,
There is a plugin for gimp (grub-image.scm) that can convert images into a format useable by grub.

Cheers

Rich

richyp · Posted: Sat May 11, 2002 8:04 pm Post subject:

I guess a link would be useful

http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=1883

Cheers

Rich

ElCondor · Posted: Sat May 11, 2002 8:58 pm Post subject:

14 colors xpm! well, it's soooooo simple once you know it

Finally, the cow is there on the bootscreen .. just that I'm no graphics expert, the colors could be better .... for those who are interested: you can download the splash-image at http://wennja.warum.net/gentoo/

have phun!

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richyp · Posted: Sun May 12, 2002 9:31 am Post subject:

Looks great

freefall · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 89

You guys might find this page interesting.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

I wouldn't mind seeing the penguin look more like a real gentoo penquin plus have a really neat 'g' on him/her

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I am so bad at graphics stuff like that.

TheWart · Posted: Mon May 13, 2002 4:13 am Post subject:

elcondor, thanks for the link, I will definitely try that out, but one question.
On your site it says:

ElCondor · Posted: Mon May 13, 2002 6:30 am Post subject:

i have gentoo installed on just one partition, no seperate boot-partition, that's the reason for my menu.lst entry. generally this is bad, bad behavior, so install on a seperate boot partition and follow the install instructions on the gentoo homepage

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DArtagnan · Posted: Mon May 13, 2002 6:54 am Post subject: Logo

Can i put a picture of Madona? :-)

Kidding...
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Guest · Posted: Mon May 13, 2002 7:44 am Post subject:

ElCondor · Posted: Mon May 13, 2002 8:22 am Post subject:

I guess the above posting confused everyone who already understood the concept

okay:
example 1: hd0,0 (==/dev/hda1) is the partition with the kernel and grub, which will be mounted on /boot later, then the line in menu.lst should be:

TheWart · Posted: Mon May 13, 2002 4:22 pm Post subject:

Ahh, ok, that clears it up, thx
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