Hello everybody, this is a cross-post from askubuntu.com (http://askubuntu.com/questions/352259/show-grub2-splash-screen-with-quiet-grub) where I did not get any reaction for almost a week.
I also searched the archive where someone had a similar problem, but got no answer either: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-grub/2012-06/msg00026.html. So now I hope that someone here can help me with the following problem: As the grub splash screen shows far longer than plymouth on my box, I wanted a nice background there as well. I set it up, but it only works when GRUB_TIMEOUT is greater than zero, although this post http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1302743 says: To hide the menu on boot: There should be no # symbol at the start of the line: GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 line. "0" in both entries (GRUB_TIMEOUT & GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT) above should boot the system without a timeout. A positive integer will leave a blank screen for that number of seconds, allowing the user time to press "ESC" or "SHIFT" to display the menu. The splash screen will still display during the timeout. So I do not want the grub2 menu to show, but the grub2 splash screen. Is this a bug? Can I fix it? Specs: - Ubuntu 12.04 - Kernel 3.2.0-54-generic 64-bit - grub2 package version 1.99-21ubuntu3.10 /etc/default/grub: # If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update # /boot/grub/grub.cfg. # For full documentation of the options in this file, see: # info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration' GRUB_DEFAULT=0 GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true GRUB_TIMEOUT=0 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian` GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" # Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs # This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains # the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...) #GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef" # Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only) #GRUB_TERMINAL=console # The resolution used on graphical terminal # note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE # you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo' GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024x24 # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true # Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries #GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true" # Uncomment to get a beep at grub start #GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1" GRUB_BACKGROUND="/boot/grub/Grub_Background.png" _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list Help-grub@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub