The Penguin GRUB Bootup Menu...

bonito · 07-02-2007, 04:56 PM

Hola!

Once upon a time, in the not so distant past, I installed suse10.2 on a PC.

And on this occasion, when i rebooted the machine, i was greeted with a "Penguin" Bootup Menu at the GRUB screen.
I am referring to the screen where you choose which OS you want to boot,(there is also a little timer coutdown that choose your default OS if you don't pick one).

YES, there were penguins walking around on the Screen.
That is the only way i can explain it.

Anyways, the penguins are gone now. I only see the default opensuse10.2 Grub screen now. But i want to get the penguins back.

Does anyone know what i'm talking about?? = ]

lol

Larry Webb · 07-02-2007, 05:01 PM

I know what you are talking about and was thinking the same thing, mine still comes up about every fourth or fifth time. There has to be a way to set it as default, will check into it, maybe someone else can help.

sadiqdm · 07-02-2007, 07:26 PM

Ha!

This first appeared with an update just before Xmas 2006. I still haven't found where it is!

I have 3 Suse 10.2 installs with different stages of update, and they have all started doing it again at random. When it does it during a demo most non-Linux people want to know how they can get it on Windows.

Bah! Humbug!

onjoo · 07-04-2007, 02:28 PM

The xmas grub theme is something like an eastern egg...

Want to enable it? follow this guide :

Code:

cd /boot
cp message message.old
mkdir messagetemp
cd messagetemp
cpio -iv < /boot/message

edit gfxboot.cfg with nano or other editor and change the value of penguin from -1 to 100

Code:

nano gfxboot.cfg

Code:

FROM:
#penguin theme likelihood in percent; -1 = auto
penguin=-1

TO:
#penguin theme likelihood in percent; -1 = auto
penguin=100

Save and replace the old message with new one

Code:

ls | cpio -ov > /boot/message

Reboot and enjoy

biophysics · 07-06-2007, 12:21 PM

Thanks onjoo....