grub2 background_image difficulty

grub2 background_image difficulty

[José Campos]

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I have both windows and linux(fedora core8) installed on.


I have also installed grub2(v1.96, source compiled by me) as the boot
loader.
         

I just can’t load any image as background as you can see on grub.cfg
bellow(perhaps some non necessary commands).

Images are on partition(sda3) within images directory,  the .mod files and
grub.cfg are as well on the sda3.

################################

set default=0
set timeout=5

insmod linux
insmod terminal
insmod boot

insmod gfxterm
insmod vbe
insmod vga
set gfxmode=640x480
insmod png

set root=(hd0,3)
if background_image /grub/images/ESEIG.png ; then
   set menu_color_normal=white/black
   set menu_color_highlight=white/green
else
   set menu_color_normal=red/black
   set menu_color_highlight=red/green
fi

terminal gfxterm

menuentry "GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686" {
   linux (hd0,3)/vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 root=/dev/sda5 ro 
   initrd (hd0,3)/initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.img
}
menuentry "Windows XP Proffessional" {
   set root=(hd0,1)
   chainloader +1
}

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Appreciate any help

 

Jose Campos

 

 


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Re: grub2 background_image difficulty

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Mittwoch, den 22.10.2008, 12:34 +0100 schrieb José Campos:
> I have both windows and linux(fedora core8) installed on.
> 
> 
> I have also installed grub2(v1.96, source compiled by me) as the boot
> loader.

Hello,

Don't use the 1.96 release from february but trunk SVN version.
There were many bugfixes since then and I think even in the png module
something was fixed in the last months.

-- 
Felix Zielcke

svn timed out

[José Campos]

Hello,

When i try to trunk svn version off grub2 I receive the following message like bellow:

####

[root@Apolo ~]# svn co svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/grub/trunk/grub2
svn: Can't connect to host 'svn.savannah.gnu.org': Connection timed out

####

Can you help me.

Thanks

-----Mensagem original-----
De: grub-devel-bounces+jjscampos=gmail.com@gnu.org [mailto:grub-devel-bounces+jjscampos=gmail.com@gnu.org] Em nome de Felix Zielcke
Enviada: quarta-feira, 22 de Outubro de 2008 12:31
Para: The development of GRUB 2
Assunto: Re: grub2 background_image difficulty

Am Mittwoch, den 22.10.2008, 12:34 +0100 schrieb José Campos:
> I have both windows and linux(fedora core8) installed on.
> 
> 
> I have also installed grub2(v1.96, source compiled by me) as the boot
> loader.

Hello,

Don't use the 1.96 release from february but trunk SVN version.
There were many bugfixes since then and I think even in the png module
something was fixed in the last months.

-- 
Felix Zielcke



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Re: svn timed out

[Manoel]

You should use this
svn co svn://svn.sv.gnu.org/grub/trunk/grub2 


On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:09 +0100, José Campos wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When i try to trunk svn version off grub2 I receive the following message like bellow:
> 
> ####
> 
> [root@Apolo ~]# svn co svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/grub/trunk/grub2
> svn: Can't connect to host 'svn.savannah.gnu.org': Connection timed out
> 
> ####
> 
> Can you help me.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: grub-devel-bounces+jjscampos=gmail.com@gnu.org [mailto:grub-devel-bounces+jjscampos=gmail.com@gnu.org] Em nome de Felix Zielcke
> Enviada: quarta-feira, 22 de Outubro de 2008 12:31
> Para: The development of GRUB 2
> Assunto: Re: grub2 background_image difficulty
> 
> Am Mittwoch, den 22.10.2008, 12:34 +0100 schrieb José Campos:
> > I have both windows and linux(fedora core8) installed on.
> > 
> > 
> > I have also installed grub2(v1.96, source compiled by me) as the boot
> > loader.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Don't use the 1.96 release from february but trunk SVN version.
> There were many bugfixes since then and I think even in the png module
> something was fixed in the last months.
> 
-- 
Best Regards,

Manoel Abranches <mrabran@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center Brazil

Re: grub2 background_image difficulty

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Mittwoch, den 22.10.2008, 12:34 +0100 schrieb José Campos:

> set root=(hd0,3)
> if background_image /grub/images/ESEIG.png ; then
>    set menu_color_normal=white/black
>    set menu_color_highlight=white/green
> else
>    set menu_color_normal=red/black
>    set menu_color_highlight=red/green
> fi
> 
> terminal gfxterm



Oh and I think the problem is that you set `terminal gfxterm' after the
image is loaded and not before.
The update-grub script (or grub-mkconfig now in trunk SVN) normally
generates it that way.
For example here a snippet from my debian config:

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
set default=0
set timeout=5
set root=(hd0,2)
search --fs-uuid --set 1867fa8e-a3f0-422d-912e-7d07556d633c
if font /usr/share/grub/ascii.pff ; then
  set gfxmode=640x480
  insmod gfxterm
  insmod vbe
  terminal gfxterm
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set root=(hd0,2)
search --fs-uuid --set 1867fa8e-a3f0-422d-912e-7d07556d633c
insmod png
if background_image /boot/grub/debian-blueish-wallpaper-640x480.png ; then
  set color_normal=black/black
  set color_highlight=magenta/black
else
  set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
  set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

RE: grub2 background_image difficulty

[José Campos]

Hello, thanks I already done trunk the svn version by using: svn co http://svn...

Now I have one more question.
About the font o load on your sample grub.cfg. Where or how do I get the ascii.pff font file?

Thanks for your help.

José Campos


-----Mensagem original-----
De: grub-devel-bounces+jjscampos=gmail.com@gnu.org [mailto:grub-devel-bounces+jjscampos=gmail.com@gnu.org] Em nome de Felix Zielcke
Enviada: quarta-feira, 22 de Outubro de 2008 12:36
Para: The development of GRUB 2
Assunto: Re: grub2 background_image difficulty

Am Mittwoch, den 22.10.2008, 12:34 +0100 schrieb José Campos:

> set root=(hd0,3)
> if background_image /grub/images/ESEIG.png ; then
>    set menu_color_normal=white/black
>    set menu_color_highlight=white/green
> else
>    set menu_color_normal=red/black
>    set menu_color_highlight=red/green
> fi
> 
> terminal gfxterm



Oh and I think the problem is that you set `terminal gfxterm' after the
image is loaded and not before.
The update-grub script (or grub-mkconfig now in trunk SVN) normally
generates it that way.
For example here a snippet from my debian config:

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
set default=0
set timeout=5
set root=(hd0,2)
search --fs-uuid --set 1867fa8e-a3f0-422d-912e-7d07556d633c
if font /usr/share/grub/ascii.pff ; then
  set gfxmode=640x480
  insmod gfxterm
  insmod vbe
  terminal gfxterm
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set root=(hd0,2)
search --fs-uuid --set 1867fa8e-a3f0-422d-912e-7d07556d633c
insmod png
if background_image /boot/grub/debian-blueish-wallpaper-640x480.png ; then
  set color_normal=black/black
  set color_highlight=magenta/black
else
  set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
  set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###




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RE: grub2 background_image difficulty

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Freitag, den 24.10.2008, 17:19 +0100 schrieb José Campos:

> Now I have one more question.
> About the font o load on your sample grub.cfg. Where or how do I get the ascii.pff font file?
> 
Hi,

you need /usr/share/unifont/unifont.hex file which is in Debian etch and
Ubuntu in `unifont-bin' package and for Debian lenny/sid it's `unifont'.
For the other distros I don't know.

-- 
Felix Zielcke