On 22May2008 16:26, William Case <billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Not an important question, but grub | splashimagee=(hd1,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz did catch my attention. Yes, that's the splash image. It has some size and colour map constraints. | Two questions; | 1) At boot time a Fedora 8 image quickly (0.5 seconds or less) flashes | on my screen, then does something in a blank screen; then loads the grub | menu. Can I either remove the quick Fedora 8 flash (splash.xpm.gz(??)) | or extend its life so it can be read/seen? | | 2) Just for eye-candy's sake, does anyone know of a better (prettier) | grub menu layout that I might download and replace existing menu with? Regarding the physical layour of the menu, I have no idea. Regarding the splash image, I use this: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css/bin/mkgrubsplash The important part of that is the: gm convert - -geometry 640x480 -colors 14 xpm:- | gzip -9 GraphicsMagick incantation. More normally: gm convert source-image-file.png -geometry 640x480 -colors 14 xpm:- \ | gzip -9 >new-grub-splash.xpm.gz Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Sometimes the only solution is to find a new problem. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
