Comments on: 9 Grub Splash Images

By: GOIIIKA

GOIIIKA — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:20:31 +0000

Everything is possible! Here's a nice GRUB manual with many small features described in detail: http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm

By: Seamus

Seamus — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:24:47 +0000

Aaron, Change to the directory of the file then in a terminal do:
gzip splash.xpm
That’s it. To decompress the file do:
gzip -d splash.xpm.gz

By: aaron

aaron — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:48:32 +0000

i’ve made my own image to use, but i can’t archive it as a .gz, it always ends up as a tar.gz, ie, i have splash.xpm.tar.gz instead of splash.xpm.gz. will this work?

By: Will

Will — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:41:07 +0000

For widescreen -=- Just create the image at whatever res you prefer (I use 640×400 for mine, true res 1280×800). Then scale the image to 640×480. This will result in stretches when you view it in Gimp or whatever, but Grub should unstretch it. Works for me at least.

By: xilu87

xilu87 — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:16:43 +0000

hi Idont know english… but a litle bit
i have do this what you write but before load the grube bootmenu the groub write dont found the image… and tell me to push a button
what have i do wrong?
I have a SATA Amilo Laptop, Ubuntu and 2 NTFS particion… (windows and for a programs and musics)
heer is the fdisk
szilard@szilard:~$ fdisk
Usage: fdisk [-l] [-b SSZ] [-u] device
E.g.: fdisk /dev/hda (for the first IDE disk)
or: fdisk /dev/sdc (for the third SCSI disk)
or: fdisk /dev/eda (for the first PS/2 ESDI drive)
or: fdisk /dev/rd/c0d0 or: fdisk /dev/ida/c0d0 (for RAID devices)
…
szilard@szilard:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1306 10490413+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1307 7834 52436160 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 7835 9729 15221587+ f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sda5 7835 9401 12586896 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 9402 9729 2634628+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
szilard@szilard:~$

By: Seamus

Seamus — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:19:14 +0000

Removing the white border from the grub menu might not be possible. I have surfed a lot of websites regarding the grub menu and none of them listed the white border as optional/removable. You could use a grub image that is mostly white which will allow the white border to blend into the white background… mostly. You might try changing the ‘pretty colors’ section in order to blend the border more closely with the background color of whichever image you use. Sorry I couldn’t be more help. Good luck!

By: Fintan

Fintan — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:17:29 +0000

Great tutural, thank you.
Now all I have to do is get rid of the white border around the boot list.
Any ideas?
Cheers

By: Seamus

Seamus — Sun, 20 May 2007 03:21:45 +0000

First save in the .xpm format
Then compress into the .gz format
The image should have an aspect ratio of 4:3

By: Mohammed Ayad

Mohammed Ayad — Sun, 20 May 2007 01:50:45 +0000

i’m trying to create my own Splash with GIMP under windows btw i save my image as xpm.gz with 14 colors not working with me any help

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 15 May 2007 02:45:50 +0000

Saf,
The splashimage line above seems to be correct but…
* are you using a proper splash image like the ones here?
* is it in /boot/grub/ (linking the image is unnecessary)?
* have you tried using the Grub command line to temporarily try out different settings?
* and did you install Grub to the MBR (Master Boot Record) of your hard disk or is it in its own /boot partition?
* have you tried asking for help on Ubuntu’s IRC channel (#ubuntu) at irc.freenode.net?
Normally, the fix is simple. Finding the specific problem is the challenge. Take a look at Understanding Grub. Good luck.