On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:28:25 -0600 Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 The instructions really should be in BLFS. That way peeps can roll their own. This isn't IMO LFS material. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
