No boot screen editing in Mint?

Franklinscott57 · 03-23-2011, 04:39 AM

I am new to Mint, but coming from Ubuntu.

I have used Ubuntu for my desktops for awhile, but I have anew laptop which doesn't want to play nice with Ubuntu. I tried Mint and found it to be extremely compatible with the machine.

So far so good. I'm working on doing some of the things I had set up with my desktops. However, I can't for the life of me figure out how to replace the MintOS boot-up screen with one of my own.

The software manager allows me to download Usplash appplications/ thems, but they then don't work AT ALL.

I'm running 32bit Mint, with a GNOME desktop.
Any helpful suggestions?

corp769 · 03-23-2011, 06:35 AM

Can you explain more in detail what is happening with the themes, and how they are not working?

yancek · 03-23-2011, 10:56 AM

If you have the most recent Linux Mint using Grub2 you may need to install grub2-splashimages.
Try: sudo aptitude install grub2-splashimages

Then go to the /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme file.
There is a line which begins with WALLPAPER, comment it out and enter a new line with the path to the image you want then run
sudo update-grub

Works on Ubuntu, haven't tried it on Mint but if you have Grub2, it should work.