How to change the look of grub menu??
 

I have already set up grubsplash, however the menulist and the menu 'box' that surrounds the menu list is taking up too much space and cutting off too much of my background picture. How can I change the way grub displays the menu? I want to make it so that grub just shows my choices in tiny font at the top right corner of the screen.

Is this possible? I've searched but I can only find references to the grub splash screens, not the configuration of the actual menu list.

Thx.

Since you give no indication of which distro you are using, I'll use an example from SuSE 9.3 Pro.

In folder /etc/bootsplash, I have subfolders: one has images, another has text config files which give the placement (x and y coordinates) and image size, like this:

# (tx, ty) are the (x, y) coordinates of the text window in pixels.
# tw/th is the width/height of the text window in pixels.
tx=3
ty=6
tw=794
th=556

There is one suce file and image for each defined resolution on my system. At a guess, I'd say edit the text file to change the placement (tx and ty) and the size (tw and th) to see if that gives you what you want.

The font size is another matter, I haven't found that part yet.

Forgot to mention. I'm running Gentoo 2.6.18

And, remember, I'm not talking about the bootsplash that comes up after you choose an OS from the grub list. I'm talking about the actual Grub menu that comes on, where you can choose which OS or which kernel you want to load.

In SuSE, you see a list with "SUSE Linux X.X" and "SUSE Linux (Failsafe)", etc.

In Gentoo, there is an ugly-ass border around the choices and the default background is a purple gentoo mess. I need to find a way to change the menu, and I need to find a way to remove all the borders, etc. Ideally, I want to have just the different kernel choices displayed in a tiny font at the top of the screen, and nothing else showing, except a short bar highlighting the appropriate kernel choice.

Again, this is different from the bootsplash that starts up after you've selected the kernel/os of choice and you see all the boot processes being loaded in verbose mode that can be switched via the F2 key. That's not what I'm interested in configuring.


EDIT: Thanx BigRig - Your mention of SuSE prompted me to check its bootloader and that's when I discovered gfxboot and gfx-patched-grub. Hopefully, I'll have it all patched and lookin' slick tomorrow.

Thanks