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Re: [SLE] grub splash-image
- From: John D Lamb <J.D.Lamb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:05:17 +0100
- Message-id: <42DDE99D.9020008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Steven Pasternak wrote:
> Hi! I want to change grub's look from the default suse look to a picture
> I made. I looked at how gentoo does it (using the line 'splashimage
> (hd0,0)/boot/grub/image.xpm.gz'), but when I do it grub completely
> ingores the line. If I replacd splashimage with gfxmenu, grub says that
> it is too big. The xpm.gz file is 30 k, when /boot/message is 130 k and
> it works. should I change my xpm.gz file to a jpeg and cpio it, or is
> there more to do? Thanks!
> -Steven
>
SuSE puts the splash image in an initial ram disk. Look at the shell
script /sbin/mkinitrd to see how it's done. It's certainly possible to
change the splash image.
--
JDL
> Hi! I want to change grub's look from the default suse look to a picture
> I made. I looked at how gentoo does it (using the line 'splashimage
> (hd0,0)/boot/grub/image.xpm.gz'), but when I do it grub completely
> ingores the line. If I replacd splashimage with gfxmenu, grub says that
> it is too big. The xpm.gz file is 30 k, when /boot/message is 130 k and
> it works. should I change my xpm.gz file to a jpeg and cpio it, or is
> there more to do? Thanks!
> -Steven
>
SuSE puts the splash image in an initial ram disk. Look at the shell
script /sbin/mkinitrd to see how it's done. It's certainly possible to
change the splash image.
--
JDL
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