Comments on How To Add A Splash Image To GRUB 2 On Ubuntu 9.04

Man these splash images are garbage! I can't believe the developers would put this junk in a distro! What happened to the days of COOL Linux images? This junk is like something off those cheesy wallpaper sites, with all their banners and popups! Come on you know what I mean! I hope someone can tell us WHERE to find some decent Grub2 splash images or a TUT to make our own! THANKS

you can add more images into that grub directory by change the /usr/share/images/grub into 777

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Hi

thank you for your guide as i checked my self i found that for GRUB 2 all you need to do is simply:

copy the image to /boot/grub folder "you must use sudo command with copy command or login as root"

then simply type sudo update-grub command, when grub start to update the grub.cfg file if it finds an image in that directory it will use it as a background image. see the result i got :

mhamed@filesrv003:~$ sudo update-grub

Generating grub.cfg ...
Found background image: mybg.jpg <-this shows that it found a file called mybg.jpg
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-24-generic-pae
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-24-generic-pae
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic-pae
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic-pae
Found memtest86+ image: /memtest86+.bin
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