How do I change the grub splash color from green to blue? I have put blue in the config file, I have also changed to title of the "windows" selection to "MS-DOS" and that works, so it seems that the config file is being read. -- John R. Sowden AMERICAN SENTRY SYSTEMS, INC. Residential & Commercial Alarm Service UL Listed Central Station Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail@americansentry.net www.americansentry.net
John R. Sowden wrote:
How do I change the grub splash color from green to blue? I have put blue in the config file, I have also changed to title of the "windows" selection to "MS-DOS" and that works, so it seems that the config file is being read.
color NORMAL_FOREGROUND/NORMAL_BACKGROUND HIGHLIGHT_FOREGROUND/HIGHLIGH_BACKGROUND #info grub then "Commands/General commands/color" to get to the color command. You can also get what you need by going to "Configuration", scrolling down to the very last example (look for "change the colors"), then find where it says "*note color::" -- cursor over that, and hit the enter key, also takes you to the color command. Use info instead of man because grub has a very large manual to it, and scrolling down all of that in the manpage is very tedious. In info, type a single h to get help.
On Fri September 9 2005 12:52, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
John R. Sowden wrote:
How do I change the grub splash color from green to blue? I have put blue in the config file, I have also changed to title of the "windows" selection to "MS-DOS" and that works, so it seems that the config file is being read.
color NORMAL_FOREGROUND/NORMAL_BACKGROUND HIGHLIGHT_FOREGROUND/HIGHLIGH_BACKGROUND
#info grub
then "Commands/General commands/color" to get to the color command.
You can also get what you need by going to "Configuration", scrolling down to the very last example (look for "change the colors"), then find where it says "*note color::" -- cursor over that, and hit the enter key, also takes you to the color command.
Use info instead of man because grub has a very large manual to it, and scrolling down all of that in the manpage is very tedious. In info, type a single h to get help. I have already done this. The first command, after the comment with modified date is:
color white/blue black/light-gray
I also modified a title from 'windows' to 'ms-dos' and it shows properly at boot, so I assumed that the menu.lst file is being read properly, but the color is still green. -- John R. Sowden AMERICAN SENTRY SYSTEMS, INC. Residential & Commercial Alarm Service UL Listed Central Station Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail@americansentry.net www.americansentry.net
John R. Sowden wrote:
On Fri September 9 2005 12:52, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
John R. Sowden wrote:
How do I change the grub splash color from green to blue? I have put blue in the config file, I have also changed to title of the "windows" selection to "MS-DOS" and that works, so it seems that the config file is being read.
color NORMAL_FOREGROUND/NORMAL_BACKGROUND HIGHLIGHT_FOREGROUND/HIGHLIGH_BACKGROUND
#info grub
then "Commands/General commands/color" to get to the color command.
You can also get what you need by going to "Configuration", scrolling down to the very last example (look for "change the colors"), then find where it says "*note color::" -- cursor over that, and hit the enter key, also takes you to the color command.
Use info instead of man because grub has a very large manual to it, and scrolling down all of that in the manpage is very tedious. In info, type a single h to get help.
I have already done this. The first command, after the comment with modified date is: color white/blue black/light-gray
I also modified a title from 'windows' to 'ms-dos' and it shows properly at boot, so I assumed that the menu.lst file is being read properly, but the color is still green.
Please post your menu.lst
On Sat September 10 2005 08:18, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
John R. Sowden wrote:
On Fri September 9 2005 12:52, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
John R. Sowden wrote:
How do I change the grub splash color from green to blue? I have put blue in the config file, I have also changed to title of the "windows" selection to "MS-DOS" and that works, so it seems that the config file is being read.
color NORMAL_FOREGROUND/NORMAL_BACKGROUND HIGHLIGHT_FOREGROUND/HIGHLIGH_BACKGROUND
#info grub
then "Commands/General commands/color" to get to the color command.
You can also get what you need by going to "Configuration", scrolling down to the very last example (look for "change the colors"), then find where it says "*note color::" -- cursor over that, and hit the enter key, also takes you to the color command.
Use info instead of man because grub has a very large manual to it, and scrolling down all of that in the manpage is very tedious. In info, type a single h to get help.
I have already done this. The first command, after the comment with modified date is: color white/blue black/light-gray
I also modified a title from 'windows' to 'ms-dos' and it shows properly at boot, so I assumed that the menu.lst file is being read properly, but the color is still green.
Please post your menu.lst # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Jun 16 07:16:47 UTC 2005
color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title SUSE LINUX 9.3 kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x31a selinux=0 splash=silent resume=/dev/hda2 showopts initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### title Boot from Floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 9.3 kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal noresume selinux=0 barrier=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### title MS_DOS root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 ~ Hope this helps, -- John R. Sowden AMERICAN SENTRY SYSTEMS, INC. Residential & Commercial Alarm Service UL Listed Central Station Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail@americansentry.net www.americansentry.net
John R. Sowden wrote:
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Please post your menu.lst
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Jun 16 07:16:47 UTC 2005
color white/blue black/light-gray <snip> ~ Hope this helps,
Not really; your menu.lst doesn't differ significantly from mine, yet I have always had those colours; never did have green anywhere in the boot menu. Everything in the grub info pages suggests you should only need to change the colours, and it's done. About the only thing I can think of is that you need to do a grub-install afterwards (though I can think of no reason why); did you make the changes manually, or from Yast (Yast: System/Boot loader config)? If manually, try it again from Yast. You may have to change to the default, then change back to what you want, but Yast should invoke grub-install when you're ready to commit the change. If everything made sense and was simple, then we wouldn't need this mailing list, and life wouldn't be so much fun :-)
John R. Sowden a écrit :
How do I change the grub splash color from green to blue? I have put blue in the config file, I have also changed to title of the "windows" selection to "MS-DOS" and that works, so it seems that the config file is being read.
Hi, I think that you mean that you want to change the color of the firdt screen displayed by grub. If so the color is embedded in the "message" file in /boot After a lot of trials I happened to discover that Yast commands are able to edit and modify this file. AND I got a blue screen. I built a new "message" file which should replace the original one. In the same way I use bootsplash and all my screens are blue, but it is easier than for the first screen. Hoping I've replied to your question. Regards. Michel. PS : the "message" file is a 131 ko file so I can't enclose it on SuSE list but I sent it to you.
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