Modifying the grub splashscreen
English, German, Howto, Linux, debian August 15th, 2007First of all, you need to convert the image of your choice so that it can be used as a grub splash screen (you need imagemagick to execute this command):
convert mypic.jpg -resize 640×480! -colors 14 -depth 8 mypic_out.xpm.gz
This command will resize the picture to 640×480 and will convert it, so that it uses 14 colors only.
Move mypic_out.xpm.gz to /boot/grub
mv mypic_out.xpm.gz /boot/grub/
Add the following line somewhere under the timeout option in your /boot/grub/menu.lst file (might need alteration, depending on the location of grub):
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/mypic_out.xpm.gz
That’s it, reboot the box and check out the result






December 17th, 2007 at 13:56
use as argument for the option “-resize” 640×480! with an –>x<– and it works well ;)
December 17th, 2007 at 14:14
yea the blog must have fucked that one up … sorry