How to give yourself a grub splash screen of your choice
Submitted by srlinuxx on Mon, 08/21/2006 - 14:08.
I like my machine to boot with grub (given that I dual boot) and I like to have a nice image when I’m taking my 15 seconds to decide which OS I want to boot into. Or in case a supermodel just happens to be looking over my shoulder while I’m starting my laptop up.
It’s actually quite easy to take a picture you know and love and convert it into a splash image for Grub to grab. I’m using Ubuntu, but this will work for any linux distro that uses Grub.
First, locate your image. Mine is a screen capture from the movie Seven Samurai. I’ve named it 7samurai1.jpg, which is what I’ll use for this example.
First, we’ll need to download a tool to help us convert images. Convert is part of the imagemagick suite, so let’s get the whole shebang.
Grub, lilo, and DOS batch processing ?
Linux community loves dual boot. This article had more reads than most today.
The fact that you can change Linux to whatever you love, is the reason all linux users want to be experts on Linux commands and DOS(hdd operating system) batch processing.
It is also the reason that no Linux distro can hold any lengthy attention of any linux experts. New fandangles galore every day at Distrowatch proves my point.
Linux popularity will not be made of Linux experts. But Linux newbies, who click and run to their happiness, websurfing.
You can see why Ubuntu, Novell, Mandriva and Linspire, all with paid programmers strive to make newbies their customers. RedHat complains about their competitors to gain customers. Things will eventually sorted out the winner. And the winner is newbies. OLPC project especially must have RedHat work on software for newbies and not for experts.
The truth is that Linux for newbies is just more defined functions(restricted) to enable easy and fault free computer operation. This is done in gui interface restrictions with no commandline input to cause crashes on the operating system and all the applications.