Comments on: HOWTO: Splash Images with GRUB2 and GRUB-PC on Debian Linux

By: Hal

Hal — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:01:25 +0000

FWIW – SID + GRUB2 doesn’t need you to modify the files in /etc/grub.d/
Instead create the file /usr/share/desktop-base/grub_background.sh
It should assign appropriate variables to get /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme to do your bidding. Here’s mine; modify as needed:

#! /bin/bash -e
#
# Hal’s /boot/grub.d/05_debian_theme extension
#
WALLPAPER=”/boot/grub/sunset.png”
COLOR_NORMAL=”black/black”
COLOR_HIGHLIGHT=”magenta/black”
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=”gfxterm”

That’s it. As I remember, you *need* the assignment of GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT to gfxterm!

By: Hal

Hal — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:01:10 +0000

That’s it. As I remember, you *need* the assignment of GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT to gfxterm!

By: luccek

luccek — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:36:00 +0000

the article was good and easy to follow but my “update-grub” didnt
pick up the debian image so I am stuck to the old B/W theme

By: Peterpan

Peterpan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:16:46 +0000

Hello,
Very good article !
Do you know how to change the police and the size of the text in 05_debian_theme file or in other files ?
Is it possible ?

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By: syldeb35

syldeb35 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:15:55 +0000

For a most comfortable change of splash image you can change the 05_debian_theme by
1/ Adding
. /etc/default/grub
in the beginning
2/ change the line:
for i in {/boot/grub,/usr/share/images/desktop-base,/usr/share/images/grub}/fond-grub.{png,tga} ; do
by:
for i in $(eval “echo {${GRUB_BACKGROUND_PATH}}/${GRUB_BACKGROUND_FILE}.{${GRUB_BACKGROUND_TYPE}}”) ; do

3/ Adding in /etc/default/grub
GRUB_BACKGROUND_PATH=”/boot/grub,/usr/share/images/desktop-base,/usr/share/images/grub”
GRUB_BACKGROUND_FILE=”Your_Background”
GRUB_BACKGROUND_TYPE=”png,tga,jpg,jpeg”

By: Gopal

Gopal — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:54:57 +0000

In Grub2, I have set a new splash image but am unable to change the size of the rectangle box. In the old Grub we could do this with the viewport command. What is the equivalent setting in Grub2. Pls help

By: DasFox

DasFox — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:45:43 +0000

These Grub2 splash screens are junk, I can’t imagine who would would want to use these that is a REAL LINUX GEEK!

Come on where are some REAL LINUX splash screens for this darn thing, or a TUT to tell us how to make these .tga images, because Grub2 won’t work on a .png I used.

I’m sorry for all the effort someone put into these, but they remind me of all the typical wallpaper websites out there with all their crap wallpaper images too!

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:04:26 +0000

Your posts are the best! Always helpful!

By: The Rain

The Rain — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:08:35 +0000

Great Tutorial … but I kinda like your Debian Grub .97 screen the best .. LOL

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By: Deagon

Deagon — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:34:08 +0000

Thanks for the really helpful tutorial. Good job.

By: Admin

Admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:26:15 +0000

That’s right. It is available from the Debian Lenny stable repo.

By: Deagon

Deagon — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:22:51 +0000

Nevermind, found the info myself. Should have google’d first instead of being lazy.

Add one of these lines to the END of your apt sources.list

(Europe server)
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian lenny main

(North America server)
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main

(Asia server)
deb http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian lenny main

Using
Nano /etc/apt/sources.list
to edit the file