Re: Grub2 background images

[Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>]

Am Dienstag, den 03.02.2009, 15:22 -0500 schrieb BandiPat:

> Now on to my questions.  I have built the new svn as a Zenwalk package. 
>   When updating Grub2 with new versions, is it advisable to run 
> grub-install again, so that new or revised files get copied to your 
> /boot/grub directory or is just upgrading all that is necessary for 
> grub2 to take advantage of the new stuff?

Yes you need to run grub-install to really update it.

> Next, I followed your instructions Felix, but am still not able to get a 
> background image to display.  I will include my grub.cfg, so you guys 
> might look at that.  Thanks again for all the help!  Since switching 
> over to Grub2, it has been stable & reliable with my XFS partitions. 
> I'm actually thinking it might be a good time for you guys to release 
> another version.  1.97 would be good, but I honestly think 2.0beta1 is 
> obtainable.  It's a good program.

There was already some talk about releasing 1.97 but it has stopped.

> grub.cfg follows:

Your config is generated without the graphical terminal stuff.
It should look like this:

if loadfont /usr/share/grub/ascii.pf2 ; then
  set gfxmode=640x480
  insmod gfxterm
  insmod vbe
  terminal_output gfxterm
fi
insmod png
backgroung_image /boot/grub/ZenGrub.png

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Felix Zielcke