From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why do I have cutesy little stars appearing on my grub-terminal?
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 01:33:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51956CB4.2020508@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU173-W228576E4217C5C50280AC6FDA30@phx.gbl>
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On 16.05.2013 23:16, Gerard Butler wrote:
> I don't anyone who had access to my computer and know how to modify
> configuration files. :(
Standard GRUB doesn't create any such stars and it's too well-shaped to
be a bug. So your GRUB is modified and it's not just config files,
binaries would need to be modified to achieve such effect.
>
> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 22:50:26 +0200
> From: phcoder@gmail.com
> To: grub-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Why do I have cutesy little stars appearing on my
> grub-terminal?
>
> On 16.05.2013 22:12, Gerard Butler wrote:
>
>> I tried googling this, but nothing showed up, and as far as I know, the
>> only way to set a terminal background is by putting a line for
>> GRUB_BACKGROUND in /etc/default/grub. But I never did any of this. This
>> just came up randomly during a reboot. The stars are random, the amount
>> of stars and their positions change as well as their rotations. There's
>> also nothing related to them in my grub theme. So any ideas why this is
>> happening?
>>
>
> Perhaps someone replaced your GRUB with a slightly modified one as a prank.
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-16 20:12 Why do I have cutesy little stars appearing on my grub-terminal? Gerard Butler
2013-05-16 20:50 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-05-16 21:16 ` Gerard Butler
2013-05-16 23:33 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
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