Help Boot

Avenge19 · 10-27-2004, 04:06 AM

How do I change the colour of the background of grub so when my PC boots it's not that default light green colour?

I don't like that light green colour during boot process how do you make it darker or different colour? Please Help

iluvatar · 10-27-2004, 05:31 AM

open the file /boot/grub/menu.lst in your favorite text editor. add a line like this one:

Code:

color black/yellow yellow/black

the first entry is the foreground and background color of an entry in the menu and the second is the color combination to be used when a entry is highlighted. here's a list of valid color names:

black
blue
green
cyan
red
magenta
brown
light-gray
dark-gray
light-blue
light-green
light-cyan
light-red
light-magenta
yellow
white

greetinz,
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Avenge19 · 10-27-2004, 05:51 AM

When I try to access that file is said unable. This is because the file is locked from being changed, how do I know? The picture of the file has a lock on it. How to do I unlock it? I tried go to install remove packages can't find file to unlock it.

Avenge19 · 10-27-2004, 05:57 AM

I tried yast for grub and change colour and it still boots as it normally would no change incolour even though the colour settings I've done are different now.

What should I do?

iluvatar · 10-27-2004, 06:08 AM

you have to be root to edit that file... I don't know much about grub, so if this doesn't work I can't help you any further...

greetz,
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Avenge19 · 10-27-2004, 06:16 AM

I was root that's the whole point I'll try force changes with grub in grub settings with YaST.

TiMiN8R · 10-27-2004, 06:20 AM

If you are using suse then i think the color setting doesn't change anything because it uses a theme instead of the standard colors. you should look in menu.lst or maybe grub.conf for mention of a theme. i don't know exactly what it's called, don't have my linux box readily available as i am at work. will check into it when i get home and get suse to work (installed mandrake last night and screwed up grub)

if your not using suse then i don't have a clue

edit:...silly me of course you're using suse if you have yast

Avenge19 · 10-27-2004, 06:43 AM

Ah ha found it, as default bootsplash comes with SuSe

. http://www.bootsplash.org

TiMiN8R · 10-27-2004, 07:01 AM

i don't know if those bootsplash thingies include grub splashimages, if they don't you might wanna look here: http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grub-images/

just download an image or create one yourself and edit grub.conf