GRUB help!!

dARkHunTEr · 07-24-2003, 08:26 AM

hello,

i wanna install grub, and want the same style suse has. How can I do this? SuSE has this nice graphical-like interface, it looks really good.
Also, how can I edit/make the graphic used by grub? I want to edit the grub bootloader graphic on my suse machine.

thanks in advance for any help!

Mathieu · 07-24-2003, 09:23 AM

Once you have installed the RPM, use the following command to install GRUB in the MBR:

Code:

/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda

The splash image for GRUB is splash.xpm.gz
This image is 640x480 with a 14 color palette.
It is in XPM format and then compressed with GZip.

GRUB documentation

http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub/

dARkHunTEr · 07-24-2003, 10:19 AM

Seems like suse hasn't got any splash.xpm.gz file

...and the gnu.org site is down

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Mathieu · 07-24-2003, 10:37 AM

GNU.org is down.

Then we must Google/Linux.

http://www.google.ca/linux

GRUB Manual
http://linux.ucla.edu/manual/grub-0....mono/grub.html

Using the information in my previous post,
you can use TheGimp to create one.

dARkHunTEr · 07-24-2003, 10:41 AM

But where does suse store this stuff?? They have a graphical menu.
There is a reference to /boot/message (~138kb) in grub.conf, but I can't open this file with the gimp (also says unknown file). Is this a microsoft-like mistery?

Mathieu · 07-24-2003, 12:11 PM

Quote:

microsoft-like mistery

No such thing in Linux.

To find GRUB related files, type whereis grub.

If splash.xpm.gz does not exist, you must create it.
In the grub.conf, add splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
In Linux terms, the line means that the splash image is located on hda (primary HD) and in partition 1 with the specified path.

dARkHunTEr · 07-24-2003, 12:24 PM

My menu.lst:

Quote:

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sun Jul 20 13:00:42 2003

color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
gfxmenu (hd0,3)/boot/message
timeout 8

title Linux (SuSE 8.2)
kernel (hd0,3)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 vga=0x317 hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 splash=silent showopts acpi=off
initrd (hd0,3)/boot/initrd

title Windows XP Home Edition
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

title Floppy
root (fd0)
chainloader +1

title Failsafe
kernel (hd0,3)/boot/vmlinuz.shipped root=/dev/hda4 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3
initrd (hd0,3)/boot/initrd.shipped

Mathieu · 07-24-2003, 12:52 PM

More GRUB files may be located in /boot/grub.

You can save your new image to /boot
Then add the following line right after timeout 8

Code:

splashimage=(hd0,3)/boot/splash.xpm.gz

Comment out the following lines with a #

Code:

# color white/blue black/light-gray
# gfxmenu (hd0,3)/boot/message

The file associated with gfxmenu is a graphical menu object file. So, you should use splashimage instead.
If you want to create a graphical menu object, you will need gfxboot.

dARkHunTEr · 07-24-2003, 12:55 PM

I think you misunderstood me - I want to know how SuSE did the trick, and want to add an image myself to another pc's grub install. The menu.lst is the one from the SuSE pc, which has this suse-grub bootloader which is kinda graphical (its like when u boot the suse cd/dvd). They dont use splashimage...

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dARkHunTEr · 07-25-2003, 07:13 AM

seems like i got it...check /usr/share/gfxboot/SuSE. here is the 'source' of /boot/message, which involves the nice graphical boot. You can compile it with mkbootmsg (root).
are there any utils to create a gfxboot some easier?

Mathieu · 07-25-2003, 04:10 PM

I don't know.

I never tried to create a graphical menu object file.

dARkHunTEr · 07-26-2003, 04:41 AM

seems like i gotta patch grub for graphical menus and splashscreens - is that true and how can i do that?

dARkHunTEr · 07-31-2003, 06:22 AM

help!!