Grub in /extra

chess · 07-02-2005, 04:18 PM

I think I read somewhere that standard grub does not have the capability to display the grub splashimage without a patch. Is this true? And, if so, is the grub that is in /extra unpatched? (i.e. does the grub in /extra not display splashimages).

Thanks.

Namaseit · 07-02-2005, 04:22 PM

Huh good question. I don't know. I don't think you have to patch grub anymore for that functionality. I remember having to do it for LFS a long time ago. You should check the grub site and see. I seem to remember it saying that all newer version don't need to be patched. That was something like 3 years ago so I'm not too sure. I'll check.

Namaseit · 07-02-2005, 04:42 PM

Didn't find anything specifically on the grub site but found a site with a howto and a way to find out if grub supports splashimages
http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grub-images/#3

I don't have grub so I couldn't verify that the script works but if you want to find out it seems to be the solution.

chess · 07-02-2005, 05:18 PM

thanks -- I had come across that site while googling before posting but I didn't catch that section on the script to test if your grub has the patch or not. Thanks, I'll test that.

jong357 · 07-02-2005, 05:37 PM

To the best of my knowledge, Legacy Grub doesn't have splash support. You have to patch for it. GRUB2 is supposed to have that built into it, whenever that goes mainstream. The maintainer for grub doesn't care about splash support from what I've read. He is interested in bugfixes and new 'practical' functionality only. Hence, the reason why Grub-0.9x doesn't have splash support.

chess · 07-02-2005, 08:48 PM

Well, now I need some help installing grub... :0

I had grub working fine using the one in /extra. However, since it does not appear that it has the splashimage enabled, which I want to use, I removed it and installed the one from linuxpackages.net, which apparently has the splashimage patch enabled:

http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=5931

So, I installed that package and copied the /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/* files over to /boot/grub. I ran "grub" and then "root (hd0,4)" [my slack partition is at /dev/hda5] and then "setup (hd0,4)" and then quit. I use another bootloader at my MBR so I always install lilo/grub onto the root partition of my slack install.

It seemed like it worked fine and said it found all the grub stage files and everything. I created my menu.lst file which I'll post in a second but I used it before and it worked fine. Anyway, when I boot into slack it hangs at the:

GRUB Loading stage1.5

GRUB loading, please wait ...

I've googled around and everything seems to say to reinstall grub, which I have done twice now. I have read the "info grub" on how to install grub and I think I have it correct.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks!

chess · 07-02-2005, 09:03 PM

FWIW, here is my /boot/grub/menu.lst:

Code:

timeout 30
color light-gray/blue black/light-gray
title Slackware 2.6.12.1
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 ro vga=773
title Slackware 2.4.29
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-ide-2.4.29 root=/dev/hda5 ro vga=773
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

jong357 · 07-03-2005, 05:07 AM

Not too sure. Did the grub from /extra work? If so, must be the linuxpackes grub thats giving you a problem... Might be a good first step.

chess · 07-03-2005, 07:34 AM

Yeah, I uninstall the grub from linuxpackages and reinstalled the one from /extra and everything is back to normal. I also confirmed with that script mentioned above that the grub in /extra is not patched for the splashimage.

What's weird is that I've used the grub from linuxpackages on other slack installs and it works fine. Don't know what's different here. Maybe it didn't like the fact that another grub was sitting in the root of the partition.