Re: Customization of GRUB2

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 11:04:56PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> >> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> >>> I am trying to provide documentation about GRUB2 (1.97.1)
> >>> customization for the Linux From Scratch book.  I am having quite a
> >>> bit of trouble finding anything describing how to set up a splash
> >>> screen directly in grub.cfg.
> >
> >> Could you help us with documenting grub better? Patches against texinfo
> >> manual are welcome
> >
> > I may be able to do that, however, I need to learn it myself.
> > I don't really mind reading code either, but a general idea about
> > where the drawing of the menu entries is located would be helpful.
> >
> > I quick check shows that GRUB2 has 287 .c files, but I suspect that
> > most of the menu customization is handled in the term/ directory.
> >
> Actually most is in normal/ and gfxmenu/. Some stuff is in term/gfxterm.c

And util/ (notably, util/grub.d) for the menu generation scripts.

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