Re: Grub2 background images

[BandiPat <magicpage91@earthlink.net>]

Felix Zielcke wrote:
> 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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Ok, it's getting better!  I can see the changes made with the above code 
you gave me, but I can still not get a background image to display.  I 
even reduced a picture down to 640x480-256 to see if maybe the picture 
was too large.  Can I change the size from 640x480 to say 800x600 or 
1024x768 for the gfxterm?

Here is my new grub.cfg file:
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from  and settings from /usr/etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /usr/etc/grub.d/00_header ###
set default=0
set timeout=10
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/Zen-splash.png
terminal console
### END /usr/etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /usr/etc/grub.d/10_freebsd ###
### END /usr/etc/grub.d/10_freebsd ###

### BEGIN /usr/etc/grub.d/10_hurd ###
### END /usr/etc/grub.d/10_hurd ###

### BEGIN /usr/etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "GNU/Linux, Zenwalk 6.0" {
         set root=(hd0,2)
         search --fs-uuid --set aa0d3fde-d609-45b8-9af9-081d159768ef
         linux   /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro splash=silent vga=794
		initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd.splash
}

menuentry "GNU/Linux, Zenwalk Text" {
         set root=(hd0,2)
         search --fs-uuid --set aa0d3fde-d609-45b8-9af9-081d159768ef
         linux   /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 3 ro splash=silent vga=794
		initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd.splash
}

menuentry "Memory Test (memtest86+)" {
		set root=(hd0,2)
		linux (hd0,2)/boot/memtest86+-1.70.bin
}

menuentry "GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.28.2 (single-user mode)" {
         set root=(hd0,2)
         search --fs-uuid --set aa0d3fde-d609-45b8-9af9-081d159768ef
         linux   /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro single
}
### END /usr/etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /usr/etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /usr/etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /usr/etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file is an example on how to add custom entries
### END /usr/etc/grub.d/40_custom ###

Thanks as always,
Pat