I've been playing with GRUB2 and splash screens. I've got it working so
I wanted to make an lfs screen with a somewhat dark background so that
the menu would show over it.
I played around with gimp and came up with:
http://linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/lfs.png
I thought I'd share it. The base image is from
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tux
To use it in GRUB2, first make a font:
wget http://unifoundry.com/unifont-5.1.20080820.bdf.gz
gunzip unifont-5.1.20080820.bdf.gz
grub-mkfont -o unifont.pf2 unifont-5.1.20080820.bdf
cp unifont.pf2 /boot/grub
Then I created a 1024x768 tga version of the above file and put that in
/boot/grub.
Finally I updated /boot/grub/grub.config to add:
### grub.cfg
set default=0
set timeout=15
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
loadfont /grub/unifont.pf2
#set gfxmode="1024x768;800x600;640x480"
insmod gfxterm
insmod vbe
insmod tga
terminal_output gfxterm
if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
terminal gfxterm
fi
if background_image /grub/lfs.tga ; then
set menu_color_normal=light-gray/black
set menu_color_highlight=white/black
else
set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
fi
...
Works for me and looks pretty decent. There is some GRUB2 generated
text over the words in the image, but it doesn't distract too much.
Enjoy.
-- Bruce
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