[LUGSB] Re: Hi-Res GRUB splash images

[GoinEasy at eniinternet.com]

> Any ideas, guys?
>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Arjun G. Menon <arjungmenon at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was just wondering if there is any way to have high-resolution
>> images (1280x800) as background on GRUB?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Arjun
>>
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I don't know what distro your running, so I can't say if it's the same as
mine (I run Debian Sid (sidux)).  If your talking about the GRUB boot
screen, the images are kept in a compressed CPIO archive file called
message.hd in the /boot folder.  You have to copy this file to a tmp
directory, extract it, make changes, then compress it again and copy it
back to /boot.  Just make sure you back up the original, just in case.
Sometimes (like in pure Debian) resolution is set low during grub/boot
process so you might want to add vga=791 to the kernel line in
/boot/grub/menu.lst.  Mine looks like this:
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-6.slh.2-sidux-686
root=UUID=ff3ac0e7-3095-45e4-ab60-c57558a238d1 ro quiet vga=791

Have fun.
Tom