How To Fix The Grub Splash Image

[Joachim Backes]

On 04/19/2009 03:26 AM, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> gimp Artwork-F11-grub.xpm.gz
> Click Image on the menu bar and then Mode and notice that Mode is set to
> 'RGB'. Click the radio button to select "Indexed..." instead.
> Under Color map, click the radio button for "Generate optimum palette",
> and under that change the maximum from 255 colors to 14.
> Click Convert.
> Click File...Save As... and rename the file to something else but keep
> the xpm.gz extension. For example, "Artwork-F11-v4-grub.xpm.gz".
> Accept the default Alpha threshold you are offered for XPM.
> su to root:
>
> su -
>
> change directory to /boot/grub:
>
> cd /boot/grub
>
> Copy (with cp) the newly created v4.grub.xpm.gz file to /boot/grub:
>
> cp /home/yourusername/Artwork-F11-v4-grub.xpm.gz .
>
> (If you mv it instead of cp it to be space efficient, I have a feeling
> you will run into trouble with SELinux labels.)
>
> Edit grub.conf with your favorite editor, and add the newly changed file
> to the splashimage line:
>
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/Artwork-F11-v4-grub.xpm.gz
>
> save grub.conf. If you use gedit or emacs or some similar editor, you
> will automatically get a backup file.
>
> exit from root:
>
> exit
>
> Restart the computer.
>
> That's it!
>
> Bob
>    

Thanks, Bob, that worked for me (I simply replaced 
/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz).

Joachim Backes